Ukrainian Railways Joins International Rail Leaders in London as Cybersecurity Focus Shifts to Operational Resilience

13th annual Rail Cybersecurity Summit United Kingdom and Europe

Ukrainian Railways, Alstom, Hitachi Rail, Bane NOR and regulators meet in London to discuss operational resilience, rail cybersecurity and emerging regulation.

Rail cybersecurity is evolving beyond protecting systems. It is now about business continuity, maintaining uptime and building the operational resilience needed to keep railways moving.”

— Jamison Nesbitt | Cyber Senate

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM, November 10, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Senior cybersecurity, safety, engineering and operational leaders from across the international rail sector will gather in London on 9–10 March 2027 for the 13th Annual Rail Cybersecurity Summit, as the industry tackles a growing challenge: how to maintain safe and reliable railway operations amid increasing digital dependency, connected assets, long-lived infrastructure and evolving cyber threats.

Held at The Cumberland Hotel, London, the two-day summit will examine the shift from cybersecurity to operational resilience, bringing together railway operators, infrastructure managers, manufacturers, regulators and technology specialists across two streams of presentations, panels and interactive roundtables.

A major feature of the 2027 programme will be participation from JSC Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia), offering direct insight into maintaining railway operations through sustained disruption and extreme operating conditions.

Cyber Resilience in Wartime

Anatolii Protsiuk, Deputy Director for Corporate Security – Head of Information Security & SOC, JSC Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia)

Anatolii will examine what cyber resilience means when a railway has to continue operating through sustained disruption. The session will focus on maintaining operational capability, protecting critical systems and ensuring continuity when disruption is not theoretical, but ongoing.

Oleksandr Rykovtsev, Director of Corporate Security, JSC Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia) will introduce a developing Threat-Based Security Management System — TBSMS.

The principle behind the model is straightforward: Wherever there is a vulnerability and a party capable of exploiting it, a threat can emerge.

The model describes how an organisation identifies threats, responds to them, and builds resilience around the consequences.

Stop Buying Cybersecurity. Start Buying Uptime.

Alstom, a confirmed sponsor of the 2027 summit, will bring a major railway-manufacturer perspective to the discussion around operational resilience.

The emphasis moves the conversation away from cybersecurity as a collection of products and controls and toward the outcome railway organisations ultimately need to protect: the continued safe availability of railway operations.

Defining the Minimum Viable Company

Bane NOR will examine the concept of the Minimum Viable Company — identifying the people, systems, processes and capabilities that absolutely must remain operational for the railway to continue functioning during a major disruption.

The approach reflects a wider change in resilience planning: rather than assuming every system can always be protected or recovered immediately, organisations need to understand what they genuinely cannot operate without.

Cyber Risk Is Becoming Safety Risk

The programme will also examine the increasing overlap between cybersecurity, engineering and railway safety.

Professor Ciaran Martin CB, founder and former CEO of the UK National Cyber Security Centre, will provide a strategic perspective on cyber risk and resilience as organisations become increasingly dependent on interconnected digital infrastructure.

Regulators, infrastructure managers and operators will address how cyber risk is being incorporated into wider safety and operational governance.

Regulation Meets Reality

Representatives from organisations including the Office of Rail and Road, Eisenbahn-Bundesamt, railway operators and infrastructure managers will explore how regulatory requirements are translating into practical railway security and resilience programmes.

The programme will address the growing regulatory landscape including NIS2, the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, the Cyber Resilience Act, CAF, IEC 62443 and the emerging IEC 63452 railway cybersecurity standard.

Connected Trains and Fleet Security

As rolling stock becomes increasingly connected, railway operators and manufacturers face a growing challenge in securing fleets that may remain in service for several decades.

Hitachi Rail will contribute experience from connected rolling-stock and fleet-security programmes, including perspectives from projects in the UAE and Asia-Pacific region.

Sessions will examine fleet connectivity, remote access, software management, onboard systems and maintaining cybersecurity throughout the operational life of rolling stock.

AI, OT and the Expanding Attack Surface

The summit will explore how artificial intelligence, increasing automation and the convergence of IT and operational technology are reshaping railway risk.

Topics will include the use of AI within railway environments, securing signalling and operational systems, vulnerability management, remote access, monitoring and the challenge of protecting legacy infrastructure alongside new digital platforms.

Supply Chains and Third-Party Risk

Modern railway systems depend on increasingly complex technology and supplier ecosystems.

The summit will examine how operators and infrastructure managers can better understand dependencies across suppliers, software, communications infrastructure and outsourced services — and how those dependencies affect operational resilience.

Two Days, Two Rooms and 16 Roundtables

Alongside the main conference programme, the 2027 summit will include 16 focused roundtable discussions across the two days.

These sessions are designed to move beyond presentations and allow railway operators, regulators, manufacturers and technology suppliers to discuss specific operational challenges directly with one another.

The 13th Annual Rail Cybersecurity Summit takes place on 9–10 March 2027 at The Cumberland Hotel, London.

Confirmed sponsors include Alstom, RazorSecure and Cyber Innovation Hub.

Further information, registration, sponsorship and exhibition opportunities are available through the Rail Cybersecurity Summit website.

Ben Reed
The Cyber Senate & Operational Risk Council
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