5G: risks and EU guidelines

With the near occurrence of 5G a series of objective risks for cybersecurity were considered, and the 5G ecosystem was analyzed in all its parts and addressed in the report signed by the NIS cooperation Group.
What is needed is to set various elements to decrease the risk in the field of cybersecurity; two contexts are considered fundamental:
• the software that will be able to offer 5G;
• suppliers and management of and development of 5G networks.

Particular attention has been given to some elements for possible side effects and guidelines imposed by the EU:

1. The increase of possible access points, which implies greater exposure to attacks for an expansion of low-quality services which could reveal a fragile armor to attacks; the EU has made sure that it wants to increase maximum security to possible cyber attacks, also in view of major technological projects such as the possibility of personalised medicines, precision agriculture and energy networks that can integrate all types of renewable energy;

2. The EU guidelines do not bind Member States with regard to hardware suppliers but it is written that the components will be supplied through third countries, but on this point America has asked the allied countries, including Italy, to cut out huawei.

So what the EU wants to do is to apply regulations on 5G through service restrictions.

 FONTI: https://www.punto-informatico.it/europa-linee-guida-sicurezza-5g/

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