Telstra faces outage investigation as expert says legal gaps may let…

Telstra's nationwide mobile outage caused by GPS timing system failure has exposed legal gaps in Australia's critical infrastructure regulations that may have left the telco without obligation to address the known vulnerability. A government-commissioned infrastructure review found the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act does not adequately compel operators to secure space-based service dependencies like timing systems, despite warnings from agencies and experts in preceding months. If you sell resilience or backup solutions to Australian critical infrastructure operators, the regulator just signalled it will enforce a standard that doesn't yet exist in law - and Telstra's exemption window is closing. Your customer's legal obligation is about to get much heavier.