David will introduce the 2nd day general session: Opportunities, Realities and Challenges in Vertical Use Cases.

5G has high potential in industrial verticals on their path to digitization. Wireless performance, mobility, scalability and network convergence can improve automation infrastructure and enable new applications.

However, in digitalization, OT companies already are facing new cyber-security risks from the convergence of communication, computation, data storage, and (big data) analytics technologies. 5G not only inherits these challenges but also introduces new ones.

In this talk, we will summarize distinct cyber-security risks that 5G introduces for OT industries. This includes both aspects of 5G technology but also of the 5G ecosystem. Such risks relate to radio jamming, use of (non-)public networks and mobile edges, and functional safety. These risks can be show-stoppers for more conservative industries.

Therefore, addressing Internet security for production sites and device authentication are not enough. A common solution across telecom and OT industries is needed for OT customers to be able to trust 5G for mission-critical use.

The purpose of this talk is to raise awareness and motivate activities to address the particular cyber-security risks in 5G technology and ecosystem.

5G will take Mobile Communications from Internet access to a complete enterprise and society platform supporting e.g. Industrial IoT, Automation, OT, remote care, cyberphysical systems, vehicles etc.. The 3GPP standard supports inherent security capabilities that in addition to ensure security for users, network and devices, can be integrated with security functions needed in an enterprise dimension. The cloud native architecture of 5G in combination with Enterprises, applications, data and security functions going into virtualization and the cloud takes networking, processing and security into a modern, future proof scenario. Here also the connectivity architecture from device to centralized processing utilizes cloud/edge techniques so latency, processing response requirements and data localizations can be set to optimize the performance, resilience and security requirements for such applications.

As a viable enabler of ubiquitous IoT/IIoT, 5G brings the promise of true realization of IoT/IIoT to the Smart Grid, and with that comes decentralized control and improved efficiencies in the use of energy across the grid. This presentation looks not at the technology of 5G per se, but at the implications it has on cyber security for the Smart Grid as a whole. As IoT/IIoT is propagates in the Smart Grid a new and expanding attack surface comes along with the benefits. The traditional way of looking at the attack surface is from the outside looking in, working to keep attackers from penetrating the 5G attack surface. However, this new IoT/IIoT infrastructure will be built on top of the existing, and often aging, utility infrastructure that comes with its own vulnerabilities and security weaknesses that may provide an easier path for attackers to use to gain entry to the Utilities’ systems. The possibilities and ramifications of attack on the IoT/IIoT attack surface from within, in other words inside-out, are outlined in this discussion.

Private 5G mobile networks are gaining traction with large enterprises who seek a customized, secured and a fully controlled 5G environment and services. This discussion panel will provide a glimpse to industry leaders and stakeholders’ view on this 5G “low hanging fruit”.

Industrial networks are the realm of Operational Technology (OT) that have long been synonymous with Industrial Control Systems. Over the last decade, the OT convergence with IT has been disrupting the Security market triggering the emergence of advanced solutions for Defense.

Today, the emergence of 5G and IIoT into OT, is bringing additional threat vectors and giving the 5G ecosystem players, including Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), the opportunity to support Industrial Asset Owners on their Security journey. Let's see what an MNO needs to do to build an OT security practice and how Fortinet will support them with technology.

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