Huawei Shield Lab Shares Views on 5G Security Opportunities and Challenges

[Singapore, September 24, 2015] The Huawei Central Research Institute’s Shield Lab was recently invited to participate in “The 6th Brainstorm Workshop on Wireless 5G,” hosted by the Singapore University of Technology and Design. As the only enterprise invited, Huawei gave a keynote speech on the opportunities and challenges of network security and user privacy in 5G communications.

More than one hundred world-renowned professors, researchers, and professionals from Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Singapore attended the workshop. The workshop’s aim was to provide a platform for leading 5G research teams from around Asia to discuss and share updates and developments on 5G systems. The workshop covered IoT, full duplex, massive MIMO, security and privacy, high frequency communications, SDN and NFV.

Dr. Bao Feng, the director of Huawei’s Shield Lab

Riding on the tide of recent research, 5G security issues have attracted great attention in the industry. Due to changes in 5G network architecture and various 5G application scenarios, the corresponding security techniques also need to be changed. Addressing these issues, Dr. Bao Feng, the director of Huawei’s Shield Lab spoke on the topic “5G Security and Privacy”.

Dr. Bao introduced the 5G security research opportunities and challenges lying in network architecture, mobile security, physical later security, location service, and user privacy. Dr. Bao’s presentation marked the first time that the Brainstorm Workshop featured a keynote on 5G security. In his talk, Dr. Bao noted: “The high speed, low latency, large number of connections in 5G will provide more and better service for communications among people as well as for machine-to-machine communications. Network and mobile device security will become the focus of operator, network provider and users. Facing more challenges, 5G security will also provide more opportunities.” Dr. Bao concluded that, “Academics and industry need to work together to build a secure 5G era.”