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Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Act 2013, Network Securitysince 4 lines

Telecommunications (Interception Capability and Security) Act 2013 (NZ), No 91, Part 3, ss. 45-48 and 53 · Read the law's page

  • This binds a network operator, being a person who owns, controls or operates a public telecommunications network or who supplies, by wholesale or retail, another person with the capability to provide a telecommunications service (reached by declaring that you provide telecommunications services).
  • Engage with the Director of the Government Communications Security Bureau as soon as practicable after you become aware of any network security risk that may arise if a proposed decision, course of action or change is implemented, act honestly and in good faith when you do, and give the Director access to the employees, contractors or agents best placed to assist (section 46).
  • Notify the Director of any proposed decision, course of action or change regarding the procurement or acquisition of equipment, a system or a service in an area of specified security interest (network operations centres, lawful interception equipment or operations, and parts of the network that manage or store aggregated customer information or administrative credentials), or any change to its architecture or to its ownership, control, oversight or supervision, before you approach the market or during the development of the change proposal and in time for the Director to act (section 48).
  • Do not implement a proposed decision, course of action or change that the Director has advised would raise a network security risk other than a minimal one, until a proposal accepted by the Director, a Ministerial direction or the Director's decision not to refer the matter allows it, respond in writing as soon as practicable with a proposal to prevent or mitigate the risk, and implement the parts of the proposal the Director accepts (sections 51 to 53).

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