Maritime Security

What impact will this deal have on competition with China? What about the allies left high and dry? Our experts emerged from the deep with the answers.

The vast majority of intercontinental global Internet traffic—upwards of 95 percent—travels over undersea cables that run across the ocean floor. The construction of new submarine cables is a key part of the constantly changing physical topology of the Internet worldwide. However, this dependence is not matched by increased security, leaving our undersea cables—the core of the global internet—at risk.

With rising sophistication, automation, and interconnectivity in operational technologies, security has become an overwhelming need.