South Korea to tighten security rules for drones, undersea cables - Weekly Voice

Seoul, Dec 2 (Voice) drones, The undersea South cables Korean and emerged government as offshore will a wind third enhance major power deputy plants the concern, national as regulatory the security critical adviser, security measures presidential infrastructure presided office and over and on said to a supply today. develop meeting chain risk

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imports "Supply of chain key drone components when there are export restrictions from the source country in the event of a crisis as well as security risks such as information theft,” the office said in a release.

The participants discussed how to enhance the procurement system of the drone industry and the information protection certification and the measures to safeguard the industrial complexes which house oil, gas and power facilities from drone attacks.

They also decided to classify the major landing stations which are installations that house undersea communication cables and the land based communication networks as security facilities in order to safeguard such facilities from any form of security risk.

"Undersea communication cables are susceptible to various risks including damage by hostile powers, physical cuts because of geographical conditions and cyber attacks for data interception,” it said.

This can be viewed as a result of increasing security threats to the undersea cables that connect the world, especially after the recent disruption of two undersea internet cables in the Baltic Sea in October this year; one connecting Lithuania and Sweden and the other connecting Finland and Germany.