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The Quantum Computing Threat to 5G Security

Recently, in the science journal Nature, Google claimed ‘quantum supremacy’ saying that its quantum computer is the first to perform a calculation that would be practically impossible for a classical machine. This quantum computing breakthrough brings us closer to the arrival of functional quantum systems which will have a profound effect on today's security infrastructure. How will quantum computing affect the security of 5G technologies currently being developed and deployed? Last spring we suggested that the emergence of quantum internet...
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IIoT 5G Trust Security

IIoT and Trust and Convenience: A Potentially Deadly Combination

When microwave ovens first arrived on the market in 1967 they were met with public skepticism. Perhaps it was because, not long before, the same technology now promising to safely cook consumers’ evening meals was the backbone of a military radar. Perhaps it was the $495 price tag (more than $3,700 in today’s money). Whatever the reason, in the early 1970s the percentage of Americans owning a microwave was tiny. By 2011, it was 97%. What changed? Trust and convenience. When microwave...
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5G Connectivity Security

5G Network: A Quantum Leap in Connectivity – and Cyber Threats

The timeline of human history is marked by inflection points of major technological advancement. The plow, the printing press, the telegraph, the steam engine, electricity, the telephone, the internet: each of these breakthroughs precipitated tectonic shifts in how people lived and worked. Now, in the early part of the 21st century, we stand witness to the birth of a new industrial revolution built on 5th generation cellular technology - 5G network. As the name implies, 5G network follows a developmental...
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Canada Innovation Zones AI 5G

5G Innovation Zones in Canada for Launching AI and 5G in Tandem

In my previous post I argued that if Canada wants to succeed with its AI-focused innovation agenda, it should also be at the forefront of 5G innovation and development. Canada could get ahead in the global 5G race not by being the first to 5G, but by being the first to roll out 5G in the right way - addressing cybersecurity, linking development of AI and 5G, addressing regulatory and policy prerequisites, etc. Canada could leap ahead in development of...
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5G Health Concerns

5G Health Risks – Health, Wealth and Tin Foil Hats

The rollout of 5G is one of the most anticipated events in humanity’s technological history. But what about the 5G health concerns? It’s the night before Halloween in 1938 and, as the tale goes, radio audiences tuning into Orson Welles’ reading of War of the Worlds are driven to panic. Apparently listening to an ordinary radio broadcast, the public hear of an unfolding Martian invasion and a chaos of heat rays, poisonous gas and alien war machines. The news account is...
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Canada 5G AI

5G and AI – Getting Smart About 5G and AI in Canada

Canada has been investing in machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) for longer than most of the industrialized world. Dr. Geoff Hinton of Google helped ignite the field of graphics processing unit (GPU) deep learning at the University of Toronto. Then he became chief scientific advisor to the Vector Institute, which in collaboration with the University, aims to produce the largest number of deep learning AI graduates and innovators globally. Meanwhile, Montreal, Quebec prides itself as the birthplace of...
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AI and 5G Double-edged Sword

AI and 5G: AI at the 5G Core – A Double-Edged Sword

If you've ever been to an expensive restaurant and ordered a familiar dish like, say, lasagna, but received a plate with five different elements arranged in a way that does not at all resemble what you know as lasagna, then you have probably tasted deconstructionism. This approach to cuisine aims to challenge the way our brain makes associations, to break existing patterns of interpretation and, in so doing, to release unrealized potential. If the different elements work together harmoniously, it...
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Risks of AI

Risks of AI (Artificial Intelligence) – Meeting the Ghost in the Machine

In 1956, at a workshop on the campus of Dartmouth College, in Hanover, New Hampshire, the field of artificial intelligence (AI) was born. Attendants were buoyant. MIT cognitive scientist Marvin Minsky was quoted as saying, "Within a generation  the problem of creating 'artificial intelligence' will substantially be solved." This prediction turned out to be over zealous, but Minsky and his colleagues believed it wholeheartedly. What, then, is different today? What makes the current dialogue about AI more relevant and believable?...
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AI and 5G

Digital Double Helix: Why the Fates of 5G and AI are Intertwined

In 2013, George F. Young and colleagues completed a fascinating study into the science behind starling murmurations. These breathtaking displays of thousands – sometimes hundreds of thousands – of birds in a single flock swooping and diving around each other, look from a distance like a single organism organically shape-shifting before the viewer’s eyes. In their research article, Young et al reference the starling’s remarkable ability to “maintain cohesion as a group in highly uncertain environments and with limited, noisy...
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5G Critical Infrastructure

5G Critical Infrastructure – the Most Critical of All

Not even 30 years separate us from the end of the Cold War. Yet, we appear to be witnessing the emergence of a new one, a technology Cold War between the United States and China. This time, instead of a ‘red under the bed’, the US government has declared there is one at the back door. It accuses Chinese technology companies of deliberately building vulnerabilities into their tech, allowing the Chinese to access and control the 5G...
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5G Business

Telcos Should Take Risks to Jumpstart the 5G Ecosystem

5G connectivity burst onto the world stage at last year’s Winter Olympics in Seoul, South Korea and gained pop culture visibility again at the April 2019 NCAA Final Four men’s college basketball games in Minneapolis. Why the rush to 5G though, when most of the world is still rolling out 4G mobile service or still waiting for it? Consumers don’t yet have 5G enabled phones anyway. And why should mobile phone manufacturers push new 5G phones out...
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US vs China 5G

Geopolitics of 5G and 5G-Connected Massive & Critical IoT

Emerging Technology and Geopolitics of 5G There are several reasons emerging technology is a highly competitive industry, notwithstanding the race for intellectual property that can be licensed by burgeoning markets for revenue. A first-mover advantage is often a way to lock in relationships that can lead to long-term infrastructure commitments, integration support services, and service delivery platform development. As the adage goes, “Whoever owns the platform, owns the customer.” This race to be the...
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Marin Ivezic

Marin Ivezic is a Cybersecurity & Privacy Partner in PwC Canada specializing in risks of emerging technologies. He leads PwC’s global 5G cybersecurity efforts. He also leads cybersecurity for the Telecommunications, Media & Technology sector; and Industrial, IoT, Critical Infrastructure & Cyber-Kinetic security capabilities in the region. All these focus areas are being transformed with the emergence of 5G.
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Carriers Look to Send #5G Data to the Cloud - "As phone companies begin the multiyear process of rolling out 5G, some are looking into a partial solution to network capacity issues: moving the management of traffic on 5G networks to the cloud"

Carriers Look to Send 5G Data to the Cloud

Carriers Look to Send 5G Data to the Cloud

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ICS Attackers Set to Inflict More Damage with Evolving Tactics - Future attacks on industrial control system (ICS) networks may inflict even more damage in the long run, according to new research http://bit.ly/2NFZaZy

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North Korean Malware Found at Indian Nuke Plant - A malware infection at one of India’s nuclear power plants has been confirmed by its owner, with researchers speculating that it is North Korean in origin

North Korean Malware Found at Indian Nuke Plant

Government-owned enterprise confirms infection

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A Kodak Moment May Await Ericsson, Huawei & Nokia - Argument is that the virtualization will allow RAN software to eventually be run on any commodity server diminishing the value of underlying hardware that most telcos invest in https://ubm.io/33NLDEV

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This aggressive IoT malware is forcing Wi-Fi routers to join its botnet army | ZDNet - Gafgyt has been updated with new capabilities, and it spreads by killing rival malware https://zd.net/2Kde2wj

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AI, blockchain and IoT convergence improves daily applications - IT pros may find #IoT, #blockchain and #AI difficult to conceptualize as individual technologies, but together, the three can generate data, improve analysis and establish trust. http://bit.ly/33D8PWc

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China’s First-Ever '5G Smart Town' Unveiled Amid US Crackdown on Huawei - More than 140 #5G transmitters went into service in Wuzhen to shore up the fifth generation of mobile wireless communications in the eastern Chinese city of just 60,000 people http://bit.ly/32y0QIJ

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