This report profiles the telecommunications sector to better understand the risk landscape and whole-of-sector resilience. The resulting assessment and profile detailed in this report provide a common language and the foundations for a shared vision and cooperative action. It should be revisited regularly to track progress and demonstrate the ongoing commitment to improving sector resilience. 

By taking an all-hazards and sector-wide approach, this profile provides a framework to cement telecommunications' resilience in policy and operational practice. 

It provides a shared vision and language of resilience, including a sector-specific lexicon to describe the risk factors (threats, threat sources, and vulnerabilities) and a Sector Resilience Maturity Model to guide cooperation, collaboration, and continuous improvement. These insights, actions, and principles are not the final word, but rather lay the foundation for an ongoing, vital dialogue between government, industry, and communities in a critical sector.