diff --git a/meta-arm/recipes-security/trusted-services/secure-partitions.inc b/meta-arm/recipes-security/trusted-services/secure-partitions.inc
index 2f56502e..1df7409c 100644
--- a/meta-arm/recipes-security/trusted-services/secure-partitions.inc
+++ b/meta-arm/recipes-security/trusted-services/secure-partitions.inc
@@ -20,3 +20,8 @@ SECURITY_LDFLAGS = ""
 TARGET_LDFLAGS = "-Wl,--build-id=none -Wl,--hash-style=both"
 
 do_configure[cleandirs] = "${B}"
+
+# Currently trusted-services and psa-arch-tests use FetchContent to download
+# more sources during do_configure. Until this is resolved we need to allow
+# network operations.
+do_configure[network] = "1"