5G networks remain vulnerable to cyberattacks

The promise of secure connectivity is driving the rapid adoption of private LTE networks leads to the 5G networks. As per the study, the private 5G/LTE market is on track to hit $10 billion in five years, with an annual growth rate of 20%. The use of private 5G/LTE networks allows businesses to take advantage of cellular network technology that brings multiple advantages to the table. In the enterprise, full deployment of private 5G networks will take time, as it requires significant investments to upgrade legacy network infrastructures. At the same time 5G networks are more susceptible to cyberattacks than their predecessors and the 5G also creates new opportunities for hackers.

Gartner predicts that 66% of organizations will take advantage of these benefits and adopt 5G by 2020 — with 59% of them planning to use 5G to support the Internet of Things across their business. This is exactly what we need in the cybersecurity space – we need a precog. One that can help us anticipate cyberattacks. Talking about recent cyberattacks and major breaches there was one common thread, that of, missing information – either system error, misconfiguration, insider threat, vulnerability, or lack of visibility. To further validate this, the recent Data Breach Investigation Report of 2020 from Verizon confirms that in the last four to five years nothing has drastically changed when it comes to tactics and common methods adopted by hackers for data breaches. However, 5G can reuse existing spectrum, low bands, sites and the existing mobile network infrastructure while adding on new capabilities.

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The Gartner's Adaptive Security Architecture based on risk and trust. Apart from prevention, we also need to pay attention to other aspects – prediction, detection and response. We need to anticipate in order to respond effectively.The epitome of cybersecurity maturity comes with anticipation. Extended detection and response (XDR) products are a natural evolution of EDR platforms, which have become a primary incident response tool for security teams. Improved operational efficiency enables faster threat response.

Today’s risk management and security teams struggle with a slate of disparate security tools that weren’t built with integration or collaboration in mind. This leads to friction, reduced productivity, poor integration and uncoordinated incident response. XDR can help anticipate better, providing: Realtime contextual visibility across multiple security layers: Endpoint, email, network, cloud, mobile and IIOT. Where we can see to the Timeline and attack visualization: To know what, when and how. 5G is changing the way the world connects and communicates.

5G network is designed to connect virtually everyone and everything together including machines, objects, and devices. 1G, 2G, 3G, and 4G all led to 5G, which is designed to provide more connectivity than was ever available before. 5G is a unified, more capable air interface. It has been designed with an extended capacity to enable next-generation user experiences, empower new deployment models and deliver new services. It will help us to learn more about adversaries/threat actors and intelligence for understanding the Proactive sweeping of IOC discovered in global cyber-attacks.