Making 5G Secure for Real-time Streaming

The growing popularity of OTT services, led by Netflix and Amazon Prime, is attracting more players who are ready to leverage 5G speeds that could democratize real-time streaming. Advanced OTT streaming capabilities with improved quality of service (QoS) and quality of experience (QoE) are becoming a reality as 5G is capable of supporting up to one million devices per square kilometer.

Breakthroughs in the radio access network (RAN) layer and core mobile network subsystems will enable further proliferation of 5G streaming applications. Emerging technologies such as mmWave, MIMO, mobile edge computing (MEC), and Cloud-RAN (C-RAN) are paving the way for next-gen streaming applications for 5G-powered use cases across industries for immersive learning, augmented and virtual reality, next-gen remote healthcare and more. However, 5G-enabled machine-to-machine (M2M) and device-to-device (D2D) communications running on millions of devices and low-powered sensors mean a significant expansion of the cyber security threat landscape across the content streaming value chain, from upstream content origin servers to the last mile streaming devices.

Studying the overall OTT and content streaming architecture to evaluate susceptibility to attack, attack patterns, and modes in deference to the expanding cyber threat landscape is pivotal in developing appropriate cyber resilience strategies to mitigate risks and protect vulnerable assets.

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