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SME Questionnaire Form - June 30

Publication Target Date: June 30

Submission Deadline: June 23

Article Working Title: Stop Treating the Network as a Trusted Utility: What OT Risk Owners Should Be Asking Their Telecom Providers

Editorial Brief: As industrial operations move onto private 5G, carrier networks and edge infrastructure, a quiet assumption has crept into critical infrastructure and manufacturing: that the telecom layer is somebody else's problem and that it is secure by default. It isn't either of those things. The network is becoming a foundational layer for operations, which means its failures are now operational failures, but most risk owners can't see into it, don't own it, and have never held it to the assurance bar they apply to their own OT stack. The telco provider is a black box, and the box is load-bearing.

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Question Set

Private 5G is often sold into manufacturing and critical infrastructure operators as turnkey. From an OT cyber risk view, who actually owns security for the core, base stations and edge, and how often does no one?

Network slicing is sold as guaranteed tenant isolation. How much should OT cyber risk owners trust that claim, and what should providers have to demonstrate rather than assert?

With nation-state activity targeting communications infrastructure, how should operators think about equipment provenance, firmware integrity and the subprocessors their traffic actually touches?

As device identity becomes the trust anchor, how worried should OT teams be about SIM, eSIM and iSIM governance, and detecting a rogue device on the network?

Providers often surface little security telemetry, assuming the network can be trusted. Since visibility is a precondition for managing risk, not a substitute for it, what does that blind spot mean for an OT SOC?

In OT the wrong failure mode is a safety event. When a telco network degrades or is attacked, what should operators expect on failure behavior, notification and graceful degradation, and is it ever in the contract?

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