The first 5G mobile networks have been deployed already and more Telcos will go live with ultra-fast mobile broadband services by the end of 2018. Besides consumer-driven use cases, the greater opportunity for service providers lies in leveraging 5G’s unique capabilities to drive incremental revenues from new vertical industry use cases.
Enterprise Chief Security Officers (CSOs) will have a big say in 5G investment decisions. They won't sign-off on new 5G use cases on the scale that Telco Service Providers are hoping for unless Telcos and their 5G ecosystem partners get the security right.
Key aspects of 5G mobile security that enterprises will scrutinize include virtualization security, network slicing, edge use cases and endpoint security including Mobile Threat Defense and DLP for smart mobile devices.
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