Securing the Path from 4G to 5G
The 5th Generation of radio and network technology.
5G networks will be deployed with increasing speed over the next decade. The promise of faster data rates, consistently lower latencies, dedicated network slicing and Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) will be enablers to many new applications and services. It is vital that the industry ensures the transition and combination of 4G and 5G networking remains secure.
5G Security Risks
5G network architectures are fundamentally more open and accessible using service-based architectures, web style protocols and APIs that are many times more complex than previous networks. With these technologies and complexities comes a higher level of security risk both from outside of the infrastructure and now for the first time, potentially from network slices within.
