The Salt Typhoon Incident: Lessons from the most devastating breach in telecom history

The world of mobile telecommunications systems is complex both in terms of technology, inter-organisation relationships, and geopolitical intrigue. This talk gives a brief overview of the nature mobile telecommunications and how industrial scale failings in its implementation gave rise what Senator Mark Warner, chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, called the “worst telecom hack in our nation’s history – by far,”. We inspect the lessons we can learn from this, and how these insights have affected the telecoms giants in the spotlight, and the political implications on US Federal law.