Risks To Critical Undersea Infrastructure

Today's Deep Diveis 1,165 words and a 7-minute read.

When we think about securing critical infrastructure, top of mind is protecting our transportation networks, utilities, fresh drinking water, agriculture, hospitals, communications systems and banking and finance assets that provide functions necessary for our way of life. Governments employ myriad security measures to protect critical infrastructure, putting it behind secure gates and fences, controlling access, deploying surveillance and sensors for monitoring, and creating fire walls and intrusion detection systems, just to name a few. But what if the critical infrastructure is located miles under the ocean surface, on seabeds that sit in international waters? What if protecting that critical infrastructure is uniquely, increasingly critical and vulnerable, making its protection suddenly more important than ever before? This – protecting suddenly critical undersea infrastructure - is the challenge facing