Source · Select Committees · National Security Strategy (Joint Committee)
Recommendation 7
7
Accepted
To help mitigate risks around the clustering of high value targets, the Government should encourage...
Recommendation
To help mitigate risks around the clustering of high value targets, the Government should encourage subsea cable providers to connect to landing stations, terrestrial routes and data centres outside high-concentration points. (Recommendation, Paragraph 49)
Government Response Summary
The government agrees with the recommendation and will accelerate work with Lead Government Departments on technical impact assessments to help critical sectors prepare for subsea cable disruption, with oversight from the Cabinet Office’s ‘Undersea Infrastructure Security Oversight Board’.
Government Response
Accepted
HM Government
Accepted
. The Government agrees with this recommendation. The UK’s critical sectors must be prepared for reasonable-worst-case subsea cable disruption events. As the Committee notes, DSIT is already working with Lead Government Departments (LGDs) to update the Government’s technical impact studies for sectors most likely to be affected by cable disruption. and the internet, which will inform assessments of cascading impacts on other critical sectors. DSIT, working with individual LGDs, will accelerate work on these assessments, which will be used by the LGDs to develop appropriate response plans for their critical sectors. The Cabinet Office’s ‘Undersea Infrastructure Security Oversight Board’ will provide oversight of this work.