Cyber Security Threats for 5G Networks
Jaya Preethi Mohan, Niroop Sugunaraj, Prakash Ranganathan
Abstract
The fifth-generation mobile network (5G) services have the potential to provide high-speed connectivity to a large user base with excellent benchmarks on low latencies, large capacity, and faster upload/download data rates. The potential for millimeter-wave technologies to sustain enough power for mobile/Wi-Fi connectivity for indoor/outdoor applications provides an additional layer of expansion of 5G services to enhance good user experiences. The probability of threat landscape increases with a significant increase in network connectivity, users, non-existent or non-compliant Internet of Things (IoT) standards, and service types. Network mobility and applications that are planning on deploying 5G services such as Vehicle to Vehicle (V2V), Vehicle to Everything (V2X), Vehicle or Building to Infrastructure (V2I/B2I) Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR), digital twins-based and streaming video services increase vulnerabilities and risk landscape compromising Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability (CIA) properties. This paper provides a high-level categorization of cyber attacks related to 5G environment into Physical, Remote, and Local. The various benchmarks (latency, bandwidth) for 5G network evaluation across multiple 5G related technologies such as Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB), Massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC), Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC) are outlined.