Securing Components on a 5G Core
Jorge Proença, Vasco Pereira, Daniel F. S. Fernandes, Marco Sequeira, Pedro Quitério, Andre S. Gomes, Paulo Simões, Tiago Cruz, Luís Cordeiro · 2021
The fifth generation of mobile networks (5G) mobilizer is a 36-month project, bringing together industrial and academic partners, aiming at the research and development of future products and solutions to be integrated into the 5G. The project is divided into different areas, and the proof of concept presented in this chapter is related to the development of products and services of the 5G network core. The event processing and visualization platform (EPVP) receives security events from several 5G core nodes and presents them to an operator in a simple, easy-to-understand web interface. The chapter describes the tests made to the EPVP, application intrusion detection and prevention system, and network exposure function, as well as a global integration scenario. The security of the 5G core is monitored through a dashboard. The Dashboard presents a total count of the events by severity, presents the list of events received, and also enables the security operator to access each event detail.