Sometimes you read an article about your industry and think, “Yes. THIS!”
Politico’s “Private companies need to get better at monitoring threats” article really hit the nail on the head regarding underwater infrastructure and the overall maritime risk landscape. This is a hot topic following the damage to two underwater cables in the Baltic Sea and the FCC announcement that it will update undersea cable regulations.
Troubling Trends Before the Underwater Cables Were Cut
Elisabeth Braw, author of the upcoming book, Undersea War, and a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council, lays out the serious obstacles facing law enforcement and intelligence agencies, as well as commercial maritime organizations, and the potentially disastrous consequences of not overcoming those challenges.
She starts by writing about the two privately-owned undersea communications cables in the Baltic Sea that were cut last week. Windward posted about this breaking news extensively on X (formerly known as Twitter), and LinkedIn, offering our AI-powered insights.
Braw assigns geopolitical motivation to the cable cutting, which seems likely given our data: Windward’s Early Detection insights have been tracking troubling patterns for months. Here’s what we found…