5G slicing will generate $20 billion in revenue
5G slicing is a crucial enabler of new business models and a key concept to empower the potential of 5G. Communications Service Providers (CSPs) can slice their network assets …
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5G experimentation and security grows in govt, military sectors
Spirent Communications released its 5G outlook report, based on analysis and takeaways from over 600 global 5G engagements in 2020. The report provides insights from across …
3GPP standards enrich LTE and 5G with network architecture enhancements
Despite the impact of COVID-19, momentum for enhancements to LTE and 5G standards continue with additional releases from the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). 5G …
Revenue for 5G enterprises in the Asia-Pacific region to reach $13.9B by 2024
Mega trends across the government and public sector, healthcare, manufacturing, and telecommunications are posing new challenges to end users in vertical industries in the …
Consumers would like to view internet connectivity as a trusted utility
CSPs are well positioned to capture a clearly defined opportunity by meeting their customers’ unmet need for protection against growing threats, such as phishing and malware, …
Biggest WAN pain points: Security and service flexibility
Corporate WANs are failing to deliver on businesses’ priorities, with 55% of respondents citing security is the biggest pain point, 43% service flexibility, 36% supplier …
DNS attacks increasingly target service providers
The telecommunications and media sector is the most frequent victim of DNS attacks, according to EfficientIP. DNS attacks on service providers According to the IDC 2020 Global …
New defense method enables telecoms, ISPs to protect consumer IoT devices
Instead of relying on customers to protect their vulnerable smart home devices from being used in cyberattacks, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and National …
Microsoft releases new encryption, data security enterprise tools
Microsoft has released (in public preview) several new enterprise security offerings to help companies meet the challenges of remote work. Double Key Encryption for Microsoft …
Internet security is improving, but exposures still run rampant
Rapid7’s research found that the security of the internet overall is improving. The number of insecure services such as SMB, Telnet, rsync, and the core email protocols, …
Zero-day flaws in widespread TCP/IP library open millions of IoT devices to remote attack
19 vulnerabilities – some of them allowing remote code execution – have been discovered in a TCP/IP stack/library used in hundreds of millions of IoT and OT …
A worrisome increase in call traffic from fraudsters exploiting the pandemic
There’s a worrisome increase in call traffic from bad actors looking to cash in on new vulnerabilities created by the global COVID-19 pandemic, according to research …