Today's evolving cyber threat landscape is posing a big challenge to organizations around the world.

As more industries and government operations become dependent on cyber infrastructure, the risk of state sponsored and AI-powered threats is on the rise.

Pelican 3 owner Paul Hugenberg tells 21 News the United States is particularly vulnerable to attacks, due to the way its cyber defense systems are set up.

"The United States is built on a collaboration between government and private, and so we have a decentralized attack surface which makes it easier to attack some entities rather than others " he noted. "So the connectedness of that distributed architecture also makes it easier to get into organizations."

That vulnerability, brought into the spotlight as the U.S. works to upgrade its energy systems.

Meanwhile, the FBI director stated recently that Chinese hackers are preparing to attack US infrastructure.

"It becomes a real heavy exercise in our risk awareness posture. But it also becomes a heavy exercise in layered controls, because we have a very outdated energy architecture right now. We're plugging in a lot of the newer stuff right now which is growing the threat surface, and again, that provides us a lot of opportunities for folks that want to disrupt us to be able to do that," Hugenberg said.