Concordia University has partnered with Ericsson and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) to create a new Industry Research Chair in Software-Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualization (SDN/NFV) Security.
Valued at US$1.8 million over five years, the new chair in the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science brings together industry and academia: graduate students, professors, industrial researchers and subject matter experts to proactively strengthen cybersecurity for the networks of the future. Their aim is to develop novel processes, techniques and technologies for compliance-driven monitoring, attack prevention, detection and mitigation solutions.
Ambulance drones hover over accident sites. Smart medicine cabinets track supplies. Deep sea wind farms repair themselves, remotely. Welcome to fifth-generation (5G) telecommunications networks and the Internet of Things (IoT).
In the Ericsson Mobility Report June 2019 edition, as it expands its knowledge and projections for the telecommunications sector, as well as explore what lies ahead for communications service providers as 5G and other technologies emerge, Ericsson expects that by the end of 2024 5G subscriptions will reach 1.9 billion, 35 percent of traffic will be carried by 5G networks and up to 65 percent of the global population could be covered by the technology. This makes it the fastest generation to be rolled out on a global scale.
The 5G networks would be a cornerstone to leverage these devices in different industries from smart cities to smart cars.
Yet, as the IoT grows with the arrival of 5G networks — as for any emerging technology and new development — there is a need to put even stronger emphasis on security. Cloud-based networking may be subjected to unauthorized access, data leaks, side-channel attacks, and more.
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