5G Security

This course presents old and new threats, security aspects, requirements, recommendations from various organizations and then the new, improved functions and procedures designed to improve the security of the future 5G networks for communication with regular users and the growing number of IoT devices. The training course starts with a brief introduction to the 5G system architecture, various dangers, threats and attack scenarios and short introduction to basic cryptographic techniques used in digital communication. This is followed by a presentation of security requirements on the 5G system and recommendations from various organizations. The next parts of the course present various standardized security mechanisms and their details for securing communication with users/devices, inside the network, towards external entities, and other networks.