The UK government is calling on telcos Vodafone and BT, alongside other British companies, to protect the country’s subsea cable systems, days after the British military said that it has been following Russian ships and submarines, which seem to be tracking British subsea cable systems. UK Defence Secretary John Healey led a roundtable meeting last week of business leaders and defense companies to discuss rising threats to undersea infrastructure, including data cables and oil and gas pipelines, and discussed working together on shared risk assessments. “This infrastructure is critical to our homeland security and critical to the UK economy. It’s not just a job for the military, it’s how we step up together: the military, the rest of government, and industry,”…