The initiative, which is part of CLM University, provides technical and educational support to resellers and their customers, helping them to face the tremendous security challenges generated by the exponential use of IoT and 5G
A10 Networks, an American company specializing in security for LAN/WAN, Cloud, Edge-Cloud networks, led in Brazil by its country manager, Ivan Marzariolli, and CLM, a Latin American distributor dedicated to information security and infrastructure for data centers, launch the Cybersecurity Laboratory for IoT/5G. The initiative's goal is to provide technical and educational support to channels and their customers across the country to prepare them for the security challenges of the 5G and generalized IoT era.
The companies explain that 5G dramatically accelerates the speed, capacity and intelligence of networks, which should generate an exponential increase in IoT applications and, with them, in cyber attacks. Furthermore, intelligent connectivity and more bandwidth result in more and more connected IoT devices, more and more data to be collected, analyzed and stored.
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For the founder of CLM, Francisco Camargo, the counterpart of this exponential growth of the Internet of Things is the tremendous challenge it creates for the information security areas of organizations, due to the complexity of networks and the vulnerability of a series of IoT devices. "The emergence of Hybrid Clouds, with local treatment at the edge, comes to dominate the scenario, as IoT devices such as autonomous vehicles cannot wait for the latency resulting from everything in the Cloud," he stresses, also stating that it is necessary to train professionals for this new reality. “The Cybersecurity Laboratory for IoT/5G was created for this purpose,” comments Camargo.
Companies warn that as the use of the two technologies grows, the security implications are significant and will have a major impact on both enforcement and security policies because now, for the most part, IoT attacks can be initiated by infected devices, external and internally. Additionally, these attacks can have a wider range of capabilities than traditional threats.
And it's not just about the increase in the number of devices, which vastly widens the intrusion surface, but the unique IoT performance requirements and profile composition must be considered. Multiple policies will be needed to manage IoT devices from a security visibility perspective, which means a new level of visibility will be needed to tailor performance and access to security requirements, as IoT devices will certainly be driven by the bad guys actors to initiate various types of attacks (eg DDoS).
To meet the huge challenge, which requires a programmable and application-aware security strategy, scalable to manage a large number of simultaneous connections and connections per second with protection against full spectrum attacks, the Cybersecurity Laboratory for IoT/5G, created through CLM and A10, it will train dealer employees so that they can conduct protection projects in this new world of IoT and 5G.
The Laboratory is part of CLM University www.CLM.University. “This initiative aims to equip CLM University with more and more resources to train its ecosystem for the era of accelerated transformation,” concludes Francisco Camargo.
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