# Protecting the Backbone of the Internet

An episode of [The Truth of the Matter](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/214886950), 24 Feb 2025, 23 min.

Audio: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/CSIS2973936829.mp3?updated=1740421197

CSIS’s Erin Murphy, deputy director of the CSIS Chair on India and Emerging Asia Economics, joins the podcast to discuss why subsea cables are so important to global security, the global actors most likely to sabotage these cables, how they play into great power competition with China, and policy recommendations to mitigate these threats.

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