| Hello, we've been looking into undersea cable landing stations (landing points/landing sites) and found that many authors call them "critical infrastructures" and yet heavily lacking in security [1][2][3]. Most of them are privately owned and outside the jurisdiction of the country they're based in. As such, the owners are responsible for their maintenance, safety, and security. While damage to the undersea cables themselves are highly present and well documented, attacks (or accidents) on and in the landing stations seem to not be present at all. These attacks could be anything from bombing, to sabotage, or wiretapping. Undersea cables that are not immediately located on the shore are extremely hard to reach (on the ocean floor) and mostly damaged by ship anchors. There has been intentional cutting of the cables with the intent to sell them, but single cable failures often do not cause any damage to the global internet traffic. By attacking a landing station, you could take out all the cables which are bundled there. This has been identified as a highly attractive target to terrorists and state-actors [1][4]. So we're stumped, if taking out these landing stations is "so easy", and would cause a great amount of damage, why are no attacks on them reported? Thank you! [1]: Michael Sechrist; New Threats, Old Technology: Vulnerabilities in Undersea Communications Cable Network Management Systems
[2]: Detecon Asia-Pacific Ltd; Economic Impact of Submarine Cable Disruptions
[3]: Aisha Suliman Alazri; The Threat and Vulnerabilities of Submarine Cables in Information Security and Telecommunication
[4]: Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Threats to Undersea Cable Communications |