Resilience and Dependability

Ensuring Continuity, Safety and Trust in an Increasingly Complex World

The UK water sector is entering a new era of complexity – driven by digitisation, increased automation, regulatory scrutiny, and climate uncertainty. As infrastructure modernises and new technologies emerge, the concept of resilience must evolve beyond asset condition and redundancy.

Today, true water resilience means the ability to anticipate, withstand, and rapidly recover from disruption – whether caused by cyber threats, sensor failures, control system anomalies, or unforeseen environmental events.

HORIBA, together with HORIBA MIRA, brings a unique combination of systems engineering, regulatory insight and cross-sector expertise to this challenge. With decades of experience in safety-critical domains such as automotive, defence and energy, we help the water sector identify hidden vulnerabilities and build robust, future-ready operations.

Our resilience offering includes:

• Functional Safety expertise to manage systematic risks from digital control systems
• Cybersecurity services to protect data integrity, privacy, and operational uptime
• Cross-disciplinary systems thinking, combining software, sensors and strategy

Resilience is not just about reacting to failure – it’s about designing systems that prevent failure in the first place. That’s the standard HORIBA is helping to define.