We live our life in a digital age. The amount of data we consume in our daily life is increasing exponentially and billions of IoT devices cumulatively generate huge amounts of traffic. Our life is transforming to the new era where all these digital assets serve our convenience, entertainment.
However, we must also look the other side of the coin: security threats and vulnerability of our privacy and data. There are regulations that take these risks seriously in order to protect communities, citizens and businesses from malicious threats. Importantly, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) issues solid common standards for data protection, while similarly in telecommunication 3GPP and ETSI standardization adopts and applies important security aspects to the technology.
Our personal data must be protected in all aspects, however the amount of transactions with personal information is increasing dramatically in our digital life, such as because of our smartphone attaching to the network for any data, or even in a case of making a simple phone call. This article highlights an example of what threat core network may be challenged by a certain security leak possibility and at the same time give an answer for that.
The answer is how 5G helps to protect us. We may have a high-level insight about 5G Subscriber Data Management is designed for privacy protection who else may harvest the benefits of enhanced privacy.
As the Subscriber Data Management back-end system: Shared Data Layer enables these new front-end privacy related functions improving the value of 5G services.
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Zoltan Varnai works in the Nokia Software Core marketing team. His professional passion is marketing of the core network with a special focus on 5G core programming capabilities. His personal passion is drumming – giving bands clock-like pace.