Telecom Diary: 5G era: Cybersecurity threats loom large

The industry is rapidly moving towards a digital era. With huge strides towards 5G adoption along with emerging technologies including artificial intelligence (AI), machine-to-machine (M2M) learning, internet of things (IoT) etc, cybersecurity in networks has taken over all discussions across industries, like never before.

Digitisation may have brought in higher efficiency and productivity with new innovations but has come with challenges of security networks and data – personal/corporate – which needs to be addressed on a real-time basis.