Security News > 2022 > March > UK government starts public consultation on telco security
"Logs for network equipment in security critical functions shall be fully recorded and made available for audit for 13 months," explained the code.
The wider consultation looks at security overall, ranging from the supply chain to network security of the type familiar to Register readers.
Rather than, say, using security as a fig leaf to harm users by building yet more vast data stores about their internet usage history.
In a statement the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said its consultation "Seeks views on plans to place telecoms providers into three 'tiers'" after last year's Telecoms Supply Chain Review revealed to officials that smaller operators are less worried about security than government would like.
As is the current legislative fashion, Ofcom, which apparently already does everything from internet censorship to radio spectrum licensing to enforcing TV ads standards laws, will also now monitor and assess the security posture of telecoms providers.
Dr Ian Levy, chief techie at the National Cyber Security Centre, said in a canned statement: "As our dependence on grows, we need confidence in their security and reliability which is why I welcome these proposed regulations to fundamentally change the baseline of telecoms security."