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Undersea Cables, Hyperscalers, and National Security

Richard Salgado
Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 7:00 AM
Improving the resilience and defense of undersea cables must be a national security priority.

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The audacious and costly enterprise of connecting continents by cables that run beneath the oceans has yielded invaluable social and economic benefits. Improving their resilience and defense must be a national security priority. The United States, simply put, lacks a comprehensive government-wide strategy to promote, protect, and secure undersea cables that land on American shores. This essay proposes ways to significantly improve U.S. national security by taking steps that will help the U.S. government, cable suppliers and operators, and the public at large.

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Richard Salgado teaches at Stanford and Harvard Law Schools. He also serves as an Advisory Board Member of American University Washington College of Law’s Tech Law and Security Program, a Visiting Fellow on Security and Surveillance with the Cross-Border Data Forum, and a Senior Associate (Non-resident) with the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Richard founded a consultancy to provide guidance to organizations navigating cybersecurity and surveillance challenges. Richard has over 35 years of experience across the private sector, government and academia, including as Google’s Director of Law Enforcement & Information Security for 13 years, and as a prosecutor with the Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section of the Justice Department.

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