“The cyber problem never gets smaller. There’s more data, there’s more connectivity, there’s more innovation by the bad actor,” “Now with AI, the speed at which these tools can find vulnerabilities, exploit them, draft better spear-phishing emails, the risk is only going to continue to grow.” While the US focuses on strengthening its military response to emergencies, experts say that individual emergency preparedness is lacking. “Preparedness levels are not where we would hope they would be for some of our more common hazards,” Dr DeeDee Bennett Gayle, professor of emergency management at University of Albany, said. “There’s still a lot of work to be done to get people to understand just how our emergency management system is run,” Bennett Gayle said. The US does run a similar program to the UK’s campaign, known as Ready.gov, which was launched in 2003 and operated by the Department of Homeland Security. The government website acknowledges 25 types of disasters, including flooding, wildfires, cybersecurity, earthquakes and explosions. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/02/us-emergency-preparedness-military?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other