Security News > 2020 > March > 5G and IoT security: Why cybersecurity experts are sounding an alarm
Seemingly everywhere you turn these days there is some announcement about 5G and the benefits it will bring, like greater speeds, increased efficiencies, and support for up to one million device connections on a private 5G network.
Using IoT devices without a private 5G network or adequate technical knowledge could put organizations' and their employees' privacy at risk.
There are five ways in which 5G networks are more susceptible to cyberattacks than their predecessors, according to the 2019 Brookings report, Why 5G requires new approaches to cybersecurity.
Even if software vulnerabilities within the network are locked down, the 5G network is now managed by software.
From the 5G network point of view, trust in IoT devices is based on trustworthiness of the device's hardware, software, and configuration, as well as the applications running on it, Ericsson said.