Achieving depth: Subsea telecommunications cables as critical infrastructure

The UN Institute for Disarmament Research and the Permanent Mission of Ireland to the UN will convene a roundtable on subsea cables as critical infrastructure on the margins of the organisational session of the UN Global Mechanism on ICT security.

The discussion will present UNIDIR’s report entitled Achieving Depth: Subsea Telecommunications Cables as Critical Infrastructure.

The roundtable will bring together representatives from governments, international organisations, industry, and the research community to present the report and discuss its key findings and recommendations. Discussions will focus on identified physical and cyber threats to subsea cable systems, approaches to strengthening their protection and resilience, and potential pathways for implementing the report’s recommendations.