The National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel) and the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG) signed a Decentralized Execution Term (TED) to carry out studies on cyber security. The results of the TED – made possible through Anatel’s Center for Advanced Studies in Telecommunications (Ceatel) – should be presented by August 2023.
Through TED, a research and innovation project will be carried out on cyber security of telecommunications networks, especially in fifth generation (5G) mobile communications systems. Technological, economic, regulatory and standardization theory analyzes will be carried out, also covering legacy networks.
The project aims to elucidate cyber security aspects in various dimensions of telecommunications networks, including technological advances and economic impacts, in addition to providing subsidies for possible reassessment and adjustment of the regulatory model and the actions taken by Anatel in terms of security cybernetics.
According to the Work Plan, the project is divided into three axes: base; technological; and economic, standardization and regulatory, which have the following goals:
1. Base Axis: investigation of application verticals and their security challenges in mobile and 5G networks
2. Technological Axis
a) Investigation of security features and challenges in SDN networks
b) Investigation of security features and challenges and challenges in network virtualization
c) Investigation of cloud services and edge computing security characteristics and challenges
d) Investigation of security features on network slicing in 5G networks
e) Investigation of architectural and security features of 5G IoT services
f) Investigation of security aspects in the physical layer
3. Economic, Standardization and Regulatory Axis: study on impacts, legal challenges and good regulatory practices for 5G services in terms of privacy and data security.
The celebration of the TED is related to the work carried out within the scope of the Technical Group on Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Risk Management (GT-Ciber) of the Agency. The studies to be developed by UFCG will add to the work of the GT-Ciber with an evaluation from the perspective of the Academy, in order to provide Anatel with inputs to act on its new challenges.