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Nokia extends commitment to
network security for the 5G world
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okia has announced a significant
extension of its long-held
commitment to the highest
standards in network security, unveiling
an enhanced security programme and
establishing an advanced security testing
and verification laboratory – both designed
to address the critical security needs of 5G
end-to-end (E2E) networks.
Nokia has a long-standing commitment to
creating secure products via its comprehensive,
industry-leading Design for Security (DFSEC)
process. DFSEC ensures that security is
designed into every product from the start,
undergoing rigorous security testing prior to
commercial release. DFSEC 2.0 will build on
this leadership in security development by
focusing on additional verification work in the
areas of E2E identity management, network
slicing and SDN security, virtualisation and
OAM, including patch management.
To support collaborative research and
development across the DFSEC 2.0 program,
Nokia is opening the ‘Future X Security’
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(FXSec) Lab. Built as an extension of
Nokia’s Future X network lab in Nokia Bell
Labs in Murray Hill, the lab will be open
to communications service providers and
industries to facilitate joint testing and
verification of industrial automation solutions
in private local area networks (LANs) and
across public wide area networks (WANs).
Marcus Weldon, Corporate Chief Technology
Officer and President of Nokia Bell Labs, said:
“End-to-end 5G networks will fundamentally
transform societies by providing ultra-high-
speed wireless connectivity allowing massive,
low latency ultra-reliable streaming data
that will drive intelligent automation for a
wide array of infrastructure, industries and
enterprises. But with great opportunity
comes significant security risk that must
be addressed end-to-end, using an array of
novel techniques and technologies.
“As the most trusted end-to-end solution
provider in the 5G era, Nokia is taking a
leadership position in defining and building
advanced security solutions that will meet
mission-critical needs, leveraging the
deep and extensive security research and
disruptive innovations from Nokia Bell Labs.”
Defining 5G security standards for
the future
The E2E 5G networks that will define this
new era are a significant advance from the
closed systems and technologies in previous
generations. Software Defined Networking
(SDN) with distributed cloud infrastructure
and augmented intelligent control systems
will allow networks to scale in the 5G era,
powering the next billion connected things,
systems, machines and people.
However, open interfaces and commonly
available technology also introduce new
networking infrastructure security challenges,
as does the addition of billons of unverified
devices that will be used to sense and control
the physical world. Therefore, a new approach
is warranted that goes beyond today’s
security for ‘best effort’ networks, to enable
security for E2E mission-critical networks. n
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