Norway’s National Security Authority (NSM) says rapid advances in artificial intelligence can speed vulnerability discovery, a concern it raised alongside a six-month tripling in successful cyber operations against Norwegian organizations.
On Oct. 27, NSM raised Norway’s national cyber-risk rating to high, the second-highest level on its five-level scale. Moderate is the usual rating, and the agency said this was its first public, unclassified disclosure of the national assessment.
NSM named the defense sector, defense industry, space sector and critical infrastructure as highly exposed. The assessment also covers providers serving organizations important to national security. Listed threats range from reconnaissance and attempted breaches to successful compromises, ransomware and denial-of-service attacks.
The agency called on organizations to implement preventive measures without delay. Its recommendations include phishing-resistant multifactor authentication, hardened systems, security logging and threat detection, inventories of software and devices, supply-chain risk management, and checks that safeguards are working.
NSM said stronger baseline security across organizations could lower the national risk rating. It also said language models and agentic AI had not been documented in cyber operations in Norway.
EconoTimes previously reported NSM’s rating and guidance for exposed organizations.
