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MOIZ BAIG, HEAD
OF CYBERSECURITY
SOLUTIONS AT
NOKIA MEA
A
s organisations embark on their Digital Transformation
journey with an ambition to improve their internal processes
as well as to be able to serve their customers in the digital
age, an often-overlooked aspect is security. With telcos holding vast
amounts of Personal Identifiable Information (PII) and as the telco
networks are the spine of national communications, they are an
increasingly attractive target for cybercriminals. Nokia offers them a
range of solutions to ensure their security.
The challenging nature of 5G networks to support unique and diverse
business requirements of vertical sectors have rendered current
network security rendered less than adequate. For example, multi-
tenancy in 5G networks, i.e. infrastructure sharing by multiple virtual
network operators, also known as Network Slicing, will require strict
isolation at multiple levels to ensure absolute security.
Nokia’s end-to-end security solutions help
mitigate these security risks in a three-step
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Lastly, we have a wide range of network security solutions and
services that help operators to automate and orchestrate the security
requirements by consolidating network security
requirements into a single operations view via
our SOAR approach. It leverages our best-in-
class Global Threat Intelligence repository
and automated workflow management
to help CISOs & CIOs develop an end-to-
end visibility and control on their security
operations which will become far more critical
as the adoption of 5G accelerates.
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In 5G networks, reliability does not only refer to the network
infrastructure but also to ensuring high
connectivity, infinite capacity and coverage
(and other promised 5G features) anytime
and anywhere. This implies a security
makeover of how confidentiality, integrity
and availability will be maintained and
managed in 5G networks. Furthermore,
the already high complexity of securing
a network and its services has scaled up
another notch with the introduction of SDN
and NFV in 5G networks.
These are just a few examples of security
challenges out of the many that are
anticipated in 5G networks. In addition,
service-specific security requirements must
also be considered as the 5G ecosystem
is anticipated to be service-oriented. For
example, remote healthcare requires resilient
and robust security while IoT demands
relatively less stringent security. Security
requirements can therefore vary substantially.
process. We collaborate with 3GPP and other specification bodies to
influence the security requirements, which are then implemented
into all our products by our DFSEC (Design for Security Process).
THE ALREADY
HIGH COMPLEXITY
OF SECURING A
NETWORK AND
ITS SERVICES
HAS SCALED
UP ANOTHER
NOTCH WITH THE
INTRODUCTION
OF SDN AND NFV
IN 5G NETWORKS.
Nokia is pleased to once again be
recognised by Ethisphere as one of the
2019 World’s Most Ethical Companies in the
Telecommunications category. It has long
been part of the Nokia way to treat every
business relationship according to the highest
ethical standards. The complexity of the 5G
network environment also brings new and
sizable security risks relative to what we have
known just in recent times. In this context, a
secure network is critical for operators.
Security is in Nokia’s DNA and the company
painstakingly maintains high ethical standards
in conducting its business with customers. n
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