Part 2

Networks, services and the radio spectrum
Chapter 1

Electronic communications networks and services

Security of public electronic communications networks and services

Requirement to protect security of networks and services
105A
1
Network providers and service providers must take technical and organisational measures appropriately to manage risks to the security of public electronic communications networks and public electronic communications services.
2
Measures under subsection (1) must, in particular, include measures to prevent or minimise the impact of security incidents on end-users.
3
Measures under subsection (1) taken by a network provider must also include measures to prevent or minimise the impact of security incidents on interconnection of public electronic communications networks.
4
A network provider must also take all appropriate steps to protect, so far as possible, the availability of the provider’s public electronic communications network.
5
In this section and sections 105B and 105C—
- “network provider” means a provider of a public electronic communications network, and
- “service provider” means a provider of a public electronic communications service.
Ss. 105A-105D and cross-heading inserted (26.5.2011) by The Electronic Communications and Wireless Telegraphy Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/1210), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 65 (with Sch. 3 para. 2)