5G technology plus 74 billion IoT devices estimated by 2025, it’s no surprise that IoT security is one of the top concerns keeping many executives up at night.
With so many employees, subscribers, and seemingly unlimited data out there, the telecom industry is a prime target for cybercriminals looking for a profit.
Federal agencies urged FCC to consider China Telecom a national security threat, pointing to concerns that the company is vulnerable to exploitation, influence, and control by the Chinese government.
Hackers breached UScellular’s retail CRM software and accessed customer data, including PIN and CPNI, and ported some subscribers’ mobile phone numbers to a different carrier.
By providing hosted services to businesses, telcos will need to consider privilege access management to secure not only their own infrastructure, but also that of their clients.
In line with its aspiration of launching its 5G service in 2020, the American communications giant announced a variety of 5G devices that it will introduce in 2020 and its 5G service is already covering more than 30 U.S. cities.
Newly leaked internal document suggests that Facebook data sharing program with U.S. top mobile carriers may be highly extensive and intrusive.
Telcos have their sights set on mining the rich data they gather from customers in order to increase revenues gathered by selling that data to media buyers. However, it’s an approach that they need to consider carefully. Increased regulation and scrutiny by authorities means that they can no longer simply use (or sell) consumer data in any way they see fit.
Since 5G is not simply a faster version of 4G, but rather, an entirely new network architecture, it opens the door to entirely new security models for user privacy, identity management, and threat detection.
IoT market pushed by 5G connection is expected to grow fast and occupy $6.285 billion by 2025, the next shift will be to move users towards edge computing with devices getting stronger and cheaper to produce.
