Cybersecurity for Mobile Networks, Services, and Ecosystems
Protection, Monetization, Compliance
Overview
Cybersecurity has always been an investment framed in terms of mitigating risks and protecting critical assets. At a time when mobile network operators (MNOs) are looking to trim costs and drive growth, cybersecurity should also be viewed as a powerful business enabler. It can be a force multiplier for establishing enterprise trust and service consumption, while offering revenue opportunities by delivering security services to consumer and business customers.
Fortinet understands the challenges facing MNOs and delivers tools, solutions, and know-how that can do more than mitigate cyberthreats. It can drive value across the business, from monetization to compliance.
How Three-in-One Cybersecurity Can Drive Value for Your MNO Business
While 5G offers many advantages, it has so far failed to deliver on its much-hyped, transformative potential to drive multibillion-dollar growth. At the same time, regulators across the globe are placing ever more onerous requirements on MNOs. This is partly a response to surging threat levels and the growing criticality of communications infrastructure to the global economy.
Against this challenging backdrop, MNOs need a natively automated and integrated cybersecurity platform that spans their entire environment, from the core to the edge and the endpoint to the SOC.
Download White PaperSecurely Use Your Radio Access Network (RAN)
The RAN is fundamental in an MNO’s ability to deliver upon the promise of 5G and growth. Representing a very significant part of MNO total cost of ownership, using the RAN to deliver ROI and growth while ensuring security and compliance is critical.
RAN Complexity, Risk, and Cybersecurity
MNOs should consider resolving main RAN cybersecurity priorities as part of their service strategy.
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Security considerations in Open-RAN environments
O-RAN’s architecture creates a complex attack surface that must be identified and secured.
Learn MoreSecure Your Value: Cloud, Edge, Applications, APIs
The value a mobile provider can provide lies in helping enterprises solve business problems via the evolution of 5G to a platform encompassing connectivity services, applications, and use cases. Cybersecurity as an integral part of any 5G platform serves as an accelerator and differentiator to gain their enterprise clients’ trust and business.
Security is a major inhibiting factor to IoT development and adoption. Cybersecurity must be part of a telco’s IoT services and solutions.
Service providers are leveraging the right cloud, at the right time, for the right reasons. Security must be maintained across these environments.
Integrating and aligning cybersecurity strategy with digital and cloud strategy is key to success for service providers.
Secure Enterprise Data, Services, and Ecosystems
Going beyond connectivity, mobile providers are building capabilities and partner ecosystems to deliver industry-specific value and use cases with the goal of helping enterprises solve business problems. As a condition to services and solutions consumption, enterprises demand security and compliance. And MNOs need to deliver.
Industrial enterprises in different industry verticals are the early adopters of private and public 5G. And when it comes to technology in critical enterprise use cases, security is fundamental.
Meeting enterprise verticals’ cybersecurity and compliance needs while consuming 5G services requires cybersecurity visibility, enforcement, reporting, and automation.