Securing 5G and Evolving Architectures

Foreword

Society is about to embark on a digital upgrade—the next generation of the world’s mobile communication infrastructure—5G. Along with new and innovative capabilities, 5G also introduces new security features, vulnerabilities, and risks. 5G does not just represent significantly increased bandwidth and lower latency, but it is expected to fundamentally change the mobile ecosystem with new partnership models, network slicing, massive deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and ultimately, an increasingly critical dependency on the technology for society to function. Due to this, our ability to secure 5G will directly affect the resilience of critical infrastructure and national security.

Some of the security key risks affecting ...