Nokia extends commitment to network security for the 5G world
June 10 2019 - 5:01AM
Press Release
- Launches DFSEC 2.0: an enhanced security program to address the
critical security needs of 5G wide area networks
- Opens "Future X Security" Laboratory (FXSec): a new security
end-to-end testing and verification lab at Nokia Bell Labs
headquarters in Murray Hill, New Jersey
- Initiatives will seek to address the critical security needs of
the end-to-end mission-critical networks that will define the 5G
era
10 June 2019
Espoo, Finland - Nokia today announces a significant
extension of its long-held commitment to the highest standards in
network security, unveiling an enhanced security program 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. Launched today, a new program - 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, virtualization, 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, this 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, says: "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.
Nokia's 7 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. These security solutions are based on 7 key research
areas:
- "Accountable Security" that provides failproof identification
of industrial IoT devices in mobile and dynamic environments
- "Physical and Virtual Device Integrity Protection" that
provides scalable device attestation (hardware, firmware and
software) across the supply chain
- Artificial Intelligence enabled "Threat Detection and
Mitigation for Network Slices"
- "Fine-grained Security Policy Management" which dynamically
tailors network slice elements to meet specified security
requirements
- "Dynamic data protection" which addresses the issue of data
isolation across mobile devices, applications and slices
- "Microservice Behavioral Fingerprinting" that is a unique
machine learning based anomalous behavior detection of third party
and open-source 5G services
- Paradigm shift in design for security that provides run-time
mitigation of potential security concerns with rapid feedback into
development cycle using DevSecOps models
The next generation "Future X Security" for end-to-end mission
critical networks will leverage Nokia Bell Labs long-standing
leadership in researching and standardizing 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.
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