Public communications and SCADA infrastructure protection

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The most basic requirement instituted by essentially every national or regional telecommunications legal regime, as well as the ITU's own treaty instruments internationally is the availability of a public communications infrastructure and its protection from harm. The requirement also encompasses Supervisory Control & Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems and networks that support other critical public infrastructures and services supporting, for example, essential government, transportation, utilities, finance, and health systems. This requirement typically results in an array of legal and regulatory provisions that mandate providers institute architectures and practices to protect their networks, control devices attached to the networks, and criminalize behavior that harms the infrastructure or impermissibly accesses network elements.