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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’
(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).
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.
Nokia’s seven key research areas for
secure design
In building the new security approach for
LAN and WAN, Nokia will be incorporating
advanced research from Nokia Bell Labs to
create Network Slicing Security Solutions
that will ensure security and trustworthiness
of the end-to-end network slices – the critical
connectivity and service fabric for industrial
applications in the 5G era.
The next generation ‘Future X Security’
for end-to-end mission critical networks
will leverage Nokia Bell Labs long-standing
leadership in researching and standardising
security solutions. Nokia Bell Labs has the
leading patent filings in key areas of security
of 5G and E2E networks – including aspects
of multi-tenancy, slicing, and industrial
IoT – and for trust and patch management,
remote attestation, security management
and orchestration. Beyond patents, Nokia
has taken an active leadership role in
supporting the development of key industry
standards by working with 3GPP and ETSI. n
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
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