The Secret To 5G Security? Turn The Network Into A Sensor>
Africa.com – Enrique Vale
With 5G, there will be more networks doing more complex things and delivering more kinds of services than weâre used to. âSlicingâ will become the norm: virtualization that allows network resources to be shared with third parties, with guaranteed quality of service (QoS) and isolation. Having end-to-end slices that terminate in private networks will increase the attack surface service providers need to protect: beyond securing the network as a whole, they will have to protect every individual slice, each with its own distinct requirements. Another change that will require providers to fundamentally shift how they think about security is the nature of the services themselves. Todayâs network services tend not to change once theyâve been designed, and they operate more or less in isolation from each other. Theyâre static and siloed. But sliced-based 5G network services will be incredibly dynamic, responding to evolving conditions in real time. What does flexible, adaptive, end-to-end security look like in a 5G scenario â and how can service providers build it in from the start? The first prerequisite is visibility from the device up through the network and into the cloud. 5G security operations also need to be predictive and automated. While firewalls and other defenses will still be important to help stop hackers before they access the network, attacks will inevitably get through. This is especially true in 5G because the network will not have conventional boundaries: it will be an open ecosystem in which all kinds of unmanaged third-party devices are connected. he job of security teams in the 5G era will be to limit how and where hackers can attack networks and services.
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