Security News > 2020 > March > Tokyo Olympics Postponed, But 5G Security Lessons Shine

I'd like to thank everybody for joining us today for our webinar, "5G, the Olympics and Next Generation Security Challenges." Today, we are going to be hearing from a couple of experts in the arena: Russ Mohr who is an engineer and Apple Evangelist at MobileIron; and also Jerry Ray, who is a COO at SecureAge - he works in Tokyo quite a bit, so he will have some feet-on-the-ground information for us, which is great.

Something to note about our agenda, clearly: The hook here is that we're going to use the Tokyo Summer Games as a jumping off point to discuss what's possible with 5G technology rolling out.

These are going to be all over the place, spread throughout Tokyo at the different venues, and they're going to be amassing a lot of personally identifiable information about these people.

The amount of time, the amount of opportunities for training for AI that are going to be involved with IoT and critical infrastructure - I worry a bit that nothing's yet going to be really robust enough to handle some of the security issues that are going to come up within just a couple of months - if indeed the Olympics happen in a couple of months.

5G is going to just multiply the complexity of things, particularly as various IoT devices come on board, each with their own operating system, each with their own security protocol.

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https://threatpost.com/tokyo-olympics-postponed-5g-security-lessons/154160/