Establishing 5G Security
Protecting your network and your customers from cyberattacks from the 5G core to the far edge.
Why 5G Security Matters
5G networks are more complex—and more connected. The growth in connected devices increases the threat landscape. Among service providers, 67% are implementing or plan to implement 5G security by the end of 2021.1 What’s your 5G security plan?
1Heavy Reading, 5G Security: The Multifaceted Art of Cloud-Native Threat Mitigation
How F5 Can Help
5G’s unique security challenges demand innovative security solutions. F5 provides service providers with comprehensive 5G security solutions to protect networks from core to far edge, defending against sophisticated fraud and abuse. Protect your customers with a reliable and high-performing network.
Signaling and Roaming Security
Securing and Consolidating N6 LAN
Secure Cloud-Native Infrastructure
Manage and Secure APIs
Securing the Device Edge
Signaling and Roaming Security
Control critical signaling security, congestion management, and overload issues.
Service providers need to resolve the challenges that come with massively increased signaling traffic volume for both 4G and 5G traffic. F5 is a leader in signaling security, congestion management, load balancing, and overload control with a range of Diameter, GTP, SIP, and HTTP signaling solutions.
Diameter
F5 offers security with a consolidated Diameter signaling platform that optimizes and protects the signaling network.
GTP
Satisfy data-hungry consumers and maintain high performance by accelerating GTP tunnels and offloading GTP data traffic.
SIP
Provide security for user traffic with a firewall solution with SIP ALG monitoring and SIP control channel validation.
Securing and Consolidating N6 LAN
Reduce TCO by 60% by consolidating your security functions on your N6 LAN.
The F5 consolidated, virtual N6 LAN lets you optimize, secure, and monetize your network. It integrates the widest range of services—from CGNAT and DDoS protection to TCP and video optimization—into a single platform with a unified framework that simplifies service management.
S/Gi-LAN and N6 Consolidated Networks
Consolidate and offload LDNS with DNS caching and resolving, DNS DDoS mitigation, malicious IP blocking, and more.
BIG-IP DNS
DNS hyperscales and secures your infrastructure during high query volumes and DDoS attacks.
BIG-IP AFM
Protect your network with a consolidated security platform including firewall, DDoS mitigation, CGNAT and DNS security.
BIG-IP CGNAT
Manage your network with translation and tunneling, security, network visibility and seamless interoperability.
Secure Cloud-Native Infrastructure
Securing 5G infrastructure in a multi-cloud, distributed, Kubernetes-based network.
Apply security controls at multiple points and across multiple layers in your network. Implement security at container ingress—enabling packet capture—and shield traffic with DDoS protection and SmartNIC firewall to keep bad traffic out.
BIG-IP Service Proxy for Kubernetes
Learn how BIG-IP SPK helps give service providers the tools they need for cloud-native 5G networks.
Carrier-Grade Aspen Mesh
Harness the speed and scalability of Kubernetes for cloud-native 5G network architectures.
BIG-IP VE for SmartNICs
Increase DDoS absorption capacity by approximately 70x while observing significant TCO savings.
Manage and Secure APIs
Security, performance, and scale for any delivery model.
The explosive growth of APIs is driving new markets for both API gateways and API security. APIs that are not secure or poorly coded can expose the core services to unwanted attacks, placing the entire 5G network at risk. Get the security and control you need to mitigate API security threats.
NGINX Controller
Combine the efficiency of NGINX Plus as an API gateway with control-plane ability.
Carrier-Grade Aspen Mesh
Aspen Mesh gives a simpler user experience in the dashboard, making Istio service mesh easier to deploy and monitor.
Advanced Web Application Firewall (WAF)
Mitigate application vulnerabilities such as OWASP Top 10 and stop automated attacks that try to exploit them.
F5 Essential App Protect Cloud Service
SaaS-based WAF provides out-of-the-box protection from common web exploits, malicious IPs and coordinated attack types.
Securing the Device Edge
More connected devices means more attacks on inherent vulnerabilities.
Everyday actions are signaling posts for fraud and attacks. Security must adapt to attackers that can retool to bypass countermeasures. Shape delivers dedicated, outcome-driven defenses that protect the most critical assets from automated attacks and imitation attempts emulating human behavior.
Shape Enterprise Defense
Detect and block automated attacks in real time. Stop user account takeover and vulnerability exploitation.
Shape Silverline Defense
Gain advanced protection against credential stuffing and automated fraud in a convenient managed service.
Shape Anti-Fraud Engine (SAFE)
SAFE is a closed-loop AI system that evaluates truth and intent to identify and stop fraud in real time.
Resources
WEBINAR
Encrypted DNS: Mitigating the Impact of DoT and DoH for Service Providers
