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Electronic Communications Act, 2005 (Act No. 36 of 2005)

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Regulations on the use of Television White Spaces, 2018

15. Geo-location Spectrum Database Security Mechanisms

 

(1) Communications security must be instituted to protect GLSDs from unauthorised data input and modification.

 

(2) Authentication procedures must be instituted to ensure that GLSDs are protected from unauthorised alteration of stored data.

 

(3) Communications between secondary GLSD and WSDs must be secured to prevent unauthorized parties from accessing or modifying information during transmission.

 

(4) Communications between reference GLSD and secondary GLSDs must be secured to prevent unauthorized parties from accessing or modifying information during transmission.

 

(5) Communications among secondary GLSDs must be secured to prevent unauthorized parties from accessing or modifying information during transmission.

 

(6) Communications between Master WSDs and Client WSDs must be secured to prevent unauthorized parties from accessing or modifying information during transmission.

 

(7) GLSDs must incorporate sufficient security measures to prevent the unauthorised WSDs from accessing GLSDs.

 

(8) A Master WSD must only obtain Operational Parameters from a secondary GLSD authorised by the Authority for the purpose.