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Nokia extends commitment to
network security for the 5G world
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Nokia 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.
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okia 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).
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 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. 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
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