industry unlocked government last year , found providers often have little incentive to adopt the best security practices .
To deliver the revolutionary economic and social benefits of 5G and gigabitcapable broadband connections , the government has decided to strengthen the overarching legal duties on providers of UK public telecoms networks and services as a way of incentivising better security practices .
These duties will be set out in the Bill and will mean telecoms providers will need to take appropriate action to bring in minimum security standards for their networks and services and to limit the damage of any breaches .
The Bill will allow the government to issue specific security requirements that providers will need to follow to meet these duties . These requirements will be set out in secondary legislation , but are likely to involve companies acting to :
• Securely design , build and maintain sensitive equipment in the core of providers ’ networks which controls how they are managed
• Reduce the risks that equipment supplied by third-parties in the telecoms supply chain is unreliable or could be used to facilitate cyberattacks
• Carefully control who has permission to access sensitive core network
This groundbreaking bill will give the UK one of the toughest telecoms security regimes in the world and allow us to take the action necessary to protect our networks . www . intelligentciso . com
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