Implementing Zero Trust for 5G and Open RAN
2h 8mIntermediate2025-02-03
Authors
Taha Sajid
Course details
Zero Trust boosts your telecom infrastructure. But how do you implement it effectively and efficiently? In this course, instructor Taha Sajid covers the essentials of Zero Trust security requirements specific to telecom networks, focusing on 5G and Open RAN infrastructure. Gain hands-on experience with tools for assessing the maturity and security readiness of telecom networks against cyberthreats. By the end of this course, you’ll be equipped with skills required to analyze common challenges encountered by telecom organizations looking to integrate Zero Trust security controls into their standards.
Learning objectives
Analyze the Zero Trust security requirements for the telecom network involving 5G and Open RAN (O-RAN) infrastructure.
Apply tools necessary to evaluate the maturity level and security readiness of the telecom network to handle cyberattacks from internal and external sources.
Evaluate the challenges faced by telecom standards organizations like 3GPP and O-RAN in incorporating Zero Trust security controls into their standards releases.
Create threat models for 5G and O-RAN architecture and design Zero Trust security controls to efficiently handle risks.
Compare the value proposition of implementing a Zero Trust security architecture versus a perimeter security approach for 5G and O-RAN infrastructure in terms of cost savings and improved risk management.
Synthesize knowledge to guide Zero Trust security vendors in identifying opportunities within the telecom sector, positioning their products effectively, and addressing complex problems faced by telecom standards bodies, vendors, and operators.
Learning objectives
Analyze the Zero Trust security requirements for the telecom network involving 5G and Open RAN (O-RAN) infrastructure.
Apply tools necessary to evaluate the maturity level and security readiness of the telecom network to handle cyberattacks from internal and external sources.
Evaluate the challenges faced by telecom standards organizations like 3GPP and O-RAN in incorporating Zero Trust security controls into their standards releases.
Create threat models for 5G and O-RAN architecture and design Zero Trust security controls to efficiently handle risks.
Compare the value proposition of implementing a Zero Trust security architecture versus a perimeter security approach for 5G and O-RAN infrastructure in terms of cost savings and improved risk management.
Synthesize knowledge to guide Zero Trust security vendors in identifying opportunities within the telecom sector, positioning their products effectively, and addressing complex problems faced by telecom standards bodies, vendors, and operators.
Skills covered
TelecommunicationsApplication SecurityVulnerability ManagementCybersecurityNetwork and System AdministrationOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - The zero trust revolution for 5G and Open RAN
- 02 - What you should know
1. Telecom Network Security Overview
- 03 - The evolution from 1G to 5G
- 04 - Key components of the mobile network
- 05 - Decoding mobile network architecture
- 06 - Security risks with confidentiality and data integrity
- 07 - Security requirements by standards organizations
- 08 - Security challenges and risk at present in 5G and ORAN
- 09 - Challenge - Study a recent cyber attack
- 10 - Solution - Study a recent cyber attack
2. Overview of ZTA Security Solutions
- 11 - Applicability of enterprise ZTA security solutions
- 12 - 3GPP, ETSI zero trust security guidelines
- 13 - ORAN Alliance security guidelines
- 14 - Telecom security architecture
- 15 - Areas of concern in an advanced telecom network
- 16 - Challenge - High-risk vulnerabilities
- 17 - Solution - High-risk vulnerabilities
3. Zero Trust Security Architecture
- 18 - Why use zero trust for mobile networks
- 19 - Alignment of mobile security architecture to ZT tenets
- 20 - 5G security domains for zero trust
- 21 - Zero trust interfaces and reference points
- 22 - 5G zero trust reference architecture
- 23 - Challenge - Create a security design with policy enforcements
- 24 - Solution - Create a security design with policy enforcements
4. Zero Trust Policy Management and Use Cases
- 25 - Zero trust policy management
- 26 - User and access
- 27 - Management and data zone
- 28 - Network function virtualization
- 29 - Network slice, applications, and service
- 30 - Transport zone
- 31 - Challenge - PDP and PEP matrix
- 32 - Solution - PDP and PEP matrix
5. Zero Trust Security Framework
- 33 - Zero trust security requirements
- 34 - Assessing maturity level
- 35 - Recommendations
- 36 - The roadmap to 6G
- 37 - Challenge - Threat modeling
- 38 - Solution - Threat modeling
6. Conclusion
- 39 - Next steps
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