Critical fiber links are being sabotaged out west; sites are particularly venerable when remotely located. Any suggestions?

MSgt Danny Hope — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:14:18 -0400

http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/40305/cyber-crime/us-communications-infrastructure-sabotage.html

New attacks on critical communications infrastructure in the US

Unknown attackers continue to target critical communications infrastructure in the US, on Monday they cut backbone fiber optic Internet cables in California

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 21 at 2015 4:17 PM

SSG Private RallyPoint Member — Mon, 21 Sep 2015 16:17:20 -0400

Fiber is set for redundancy in case of accidental breakage, but straight up sabotage, if they hit two points on the same loop, the redundancy breaks down and large groups of people will lose access.

It wouldn't have been a big deal 10 or 15 years ago, but a lot of people have vital assets, such as bank accounts, that they can only access online.

This needs to be a high priority internally.

Response by 1SG Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 22 at 2015 3:10 AM

1SG Private RallyPoint Member — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 03:10:24 -0400

None that would fix this in the short term. Long term is to go deep and Hardened. Hardened underground tunnels which are secure and large enough to move through in order to inspect and manage. Just a thought. Feasibility of this is limited.