Why 5G requires new approaches to cybersecurity

Tom Wheeler and David Simpson, Brookings

5G will be a physical overhaul of our essential networks that will have decades-long impact. Because 5G is the conversion to a mostly all-software network, future upgrades will be software updates much like the current upgrades to your smartphone. Because of the cyber vulnerabilities of software, the tougher part of the real 5G “race” is to retool how we secure the most important network of the 21st century and the ecosystem of devices and applications that sprout from that network.

https://www.brookings.edu/research/why-5g-requires-new-approaches-to-cybersecurity/

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