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Safeguarding Subsea Cables Protecting Cyber Infrastructure amid Great Power Competition

“The length in kilometers — 750,000 miles — of the world’s undersea fiber-optic cables. These cables, which carry more than 95% of international data globally, are highly vulnerable to accidental disruption such as from ships’ anchors or natural disasters like earthquakes, a new report from the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies warned. The cables also represent what CSIS called “an easy target for saboteurs operating in the gray zone of ‘deniable attacks short of war’.”

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