Security and trust – key enablers for 6G
Thursday, 8 June 2023, 11:00-12:30, Room G4
Session Chair:
- Fredrik Tillman (Ericsson AB, SE)
6G is envisaged to impact the consumer market in addition to the enterprise market beyond what is accomplished by 5G today. Connected factory floors and smart businesses will be accompanied by fully connected and intelligent consumer ecosystems. However, for this evolution to happen, trust must be earned among users and supported by innovative design. Unless consumers can rely on secure handling of data and uncompromised privacy, their willingness to use connected devices and personal robots will diminish substantially. All these are essential for realizing a paradigm shift through 6G. One example of ongoing innovation relates to enclaves which will be an integral part of future telco hardware architectures. Not only for the cloudification of the Core Service Based Architecture, but also to ensure the isolation of slices in the Radio Access Network. We will need to have a much more agile architecture of the enclaves and be able to dynamically extend the trust barriers into other peripherals in addition to the memory. From a regulatory view and monitoring, it is also important to combine the enclave with a controlled way of tapping information from the trusted environment to authorized processes on the host. Other examples of technology innovation can be found in the recently launched COREnext project (Horizon Europe), which brings together leading European players from industry and academia to tackle the trust challenge. As security must be addressed in multiple layers the scope stretches from compute architectures and software handling to hardware detection using ML algorithms. The purpose of this convened session is to highlight different perspectives of network and device security and discuss measures to reach a trustworthy 6G system
Programme
- Introduction (5’):
- Fredrik Tillman (Ericsson, SE)
- Secure enclave challenges for telco (15’+5’ Q&A)
- Patrik Ekdahl (Ericsson, SE)
- The COREnext project- enhanced trustworthiness by design (15’+3’ Q&A)
- Gerhard Fettweis (TU Dresden, DE)
- Radio fingerprint using ML algorithms (15’+5’ Q&A)
- Anastasia Grebenyuk (Ericsson, SE)
- Trustworthiness and IoT devices (15’+5’ Q&A)
- Panagiotis Demestichas (WINGS, GR)
- Concluding remarks by the commission (5’)
- Mario Scilia (EC, BE)