NIST Seeks Comment on Executive Summary of 5G Security Guidance
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) released Tuesday the executive summary for its guidance publication "5G Cybersecurity." NCCoE asked for comment by April 16.
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5G standards don’t specify the protections to deploy “on the underlying information technology (IT) components that support and operate the 5G system,” the summary noted. This lack of specification “increases the complexity for organizations planning to leverage 5G, who are challenged to determine what cybersecurity and privacy capabilities 5G can provide and how they can deploy these features, as well as what supplementary capabilities they may need to implement to safeguard data and communications,” NCCoE said. “Design and operate 5G systems’ complex cloud technology stacks so they support advanced cybersecurity and privacy capabilities and design principles,” the report said: “Enable and properly configure the optional, standardized 5G cybersecurity and privacy features specified” by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project.