Securing 5G and Telecoms: Professor Kai London's Field Guide for Critical Communications
By the Finnish Express Technology Desk Professor Kai London — CISO, cybersecurity & AI expert. Credit: professorkailondon.com Telecommunications networks are the connective tissue of modern society, and 5G has turned them into something closer to a distributed computing platform than a phone system. “A modern telecoms network is critical national infrastructure that everything else depends on,” says Professor Kai London , a senior CISO. “When it is compromised, the impact is not one company's outage — it can ripple across an entire economy.” “5G expands capability and attack surface at the same time. More software, more connected devices, more places to defend — and a network the whole society leans on.” Why 5G changes the risk London explains that 5G's shift toward software-defined, virtualised networks and edge computing brings the security challenges of IT into the telecoms core. “The network is now software,” he says. “That means it inherits software's vulnerabili...