Redundancy, Resiliency, and Repair: Securing Subsea Cable Infrastructure

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Subsea fiber-optic cable infrastructure is critical for all aspects of modern daily life, providing access to the internet as well as delivering the data that underlies communications, e-commerce, financial transactions, telehealth, and e-education systems. Amid the AI revolution, demographic shifts, ever-increasing digital connectivity, and intensifying geopolitical tensions, disruptions to these networks, coupled with high regulatory barriers, carry far greater economic and security consequences than ever before. This study identifies the roles and responsibilities of key public and private sector stakeholders, assesses the threats and challenges to building redundancy to maintain a secure cable network, and provides actionable recommendations for all relevant actors to enhance the resiliency of subsea cable infrastructure.

This report is made possible by the generous support of the Smith Richardson Foundation.

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Cybersecurity, Defense and Security, Economic Security, Geopolitics and International Security, International Development, Maritime Issues and Oceans, Strategic Capital, and Technology
Erin L. Murphy

Erin L. Murphy

Deputy Director, Chair on India and Emerging Asia Economics and Senior Fellow, Emerging Asia Economics

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