My latest opinion articles

Edge Computing Fog

Will Telcos Lose the Edge Computing Battle as Well?

For many end-users of today's communications technology, the cloud is a somewhat mystical concept, a digital equivalent of aether. Most think of it as a formless abstraction "up there" when, in fact, the cloud is rooted in the ground. Or the seabed. Despite rapid advances in satellite connection, almost all...
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5G COVID-19

What COVID-19 Taught Us About the Need for 5G

There are many adjectives that could be used to describe the global outbreak of COVID-19, but perhaps the simplest might be: fast. The disease has spread quicker than most people can mentally digest. By nature, humans process linearly. This pandemic has been a lesson in exponential thinking for the common...
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5G Virtualization

Unlocking the Future – Why Virtualization Is the Key to 5G

Depending on who you speak to, 5G is either humankind’s greatest imminent blessing or its greatest imminent curse. Still in its infancy, and not yet commercially standardized, this technology has already been the most polarizing advancement we have ever seen in communication. Consumers worldwide are captivated by promises of super-fast...
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Society 5.0 and 5G

Will 5G and Society 5.0 Mark a New Era in Human Evolution?

In their outstanding book, Wicked and Wise, Alan Watkins and Ken Wilber look at some of the most pressing ‘wicked problems’ facing the human race. ‘Wicked problems,’ they suggest, are difficult to define, but they are essentially unsolvable in the usual scientific sense. The authors go on: wicked problems, such...
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5G Opportunity and Cybersecurity

Opportunity and Cybersecurity in the Age of 5G

The human will to innovate is seemingly relentless. The history of our species is one of continual development, with the last 350 years, in particular, representing staggering technological progress. The first industrial revolution mechanized production using natural elements like water. The second revolution used electricity to enable mass production; the...
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Canada 5G CA5G

Collaboration: The Unexpected Key to Success in Canada’s 5G

In 1967, Lynn Margulis, a young biologist, published a paper that challenged more than a hundred years of evolutionary theory. It proposed that millions of years ago, the eukaryotes emerged not from competition, as neo-Darwinism asserts, but from collaboration. Margulis’ research showed how single-celled lifeforms working together created an entirely...
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My latest technology articles

5G SBA IMS MEC Architecture

Introduction to 5G Core Service Based Architecture (SBA) Components

The interest in 5G and mIoT is exploding. It's exciting to see so many IT and cybersecurity professionals in my network trying to learn more about 5G and related technologies. In addition to my usual articles about the societal impacts of these innovations, I'll start a series of articles introducing...
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Huawei ERNW 5G Source Code Analysis

Does the positive review of Huawei UDG source code quality mean that Huawei 5G is secure and reliable?

No, no it doesn’t. Huawei's code might as well be extremely secure. Their code is certainly the most scrutinized. But the recent UDG source code review is not an evidence of security. ERNW, an independent IT security service provider in Germany, recently performed a technical review / audit of Huawei’s...
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5G Network Slicing

5G Network Slicing Technology: A Primer

Hyped as the technology that will transform the world, 5G is moving past the buzzword stage with first implementations coming to life in 2019. Nations are racing to 5G with such fervor that it now became one of the hottest hot-button geopolitical issues. With...
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Quantum Computer 5G Security

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...
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IEMI

IEMI – Threat of Intentional Electromagnetic Interference

As our cities, our transportation, our energy and manufacturing – our everything – increasingly embrace Internet of Things (IoT) and Industrial Controls Systems (ICS), securing its underlying cyber-physical systems (CPS) grows ever more crucial. Yet, even among engineers and cybersecurity specialists, one potential attack trajectory is often...
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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...
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Latest industry news

S.3469 NETWORK Act

U.S. lawmakers introduce bill targeting Huawei for industrial espionage

A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers today introduced in Senate a bill aimed "To impose sanctions with respect to foreign telecommunications companies engaged in...
Bell Canada 5G

Bell Canada to pause 5G launch due to COVID-19

On Bell's BCE Inc (BCE) Q1 2020 Results Conference Call on Thursday new Bell's President and CEO Mirko Bibic said: "We are ready with...
TeraGo 5G

TeraGo commences 5G fixed wireless technical trials in Toronto

TeraGo Inc. (“TeraGo” or the “Company”) (TSX: TGO, www.terago.ca) is a Canadian managed cloud and connectivity solutions company. It owns a national spectrum portfolio...
The Next Gen Future 5G Australia

Report: Inquiry into the deployment, adoption and application of 5G in AU

Australian government's committee - The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Communications and the Arts - has issued a new report on adoption of...

3GPP delays releases 16 and 17 for three months

In response to COVID-19 3GPP has delayed the next two 5G standards releases - releases 16 and 17 - by three months. 3GPP Release 16...
UK 5G Huawei

Huawei Greenlit for U.K.’s 5G Network

The U.K. government greenlit Huawei for a limited role in the U.K.'s fifth-generation telecommunications networks. This is a blow for American efforts of the...
Rogers 5G Vancouver

Rogers begins 5G rollout in Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal

Rogers announced it is starting to roll out Canada’s first 5G network in downtown Vancouver, Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal so it is ready when...
5G Threat Landscape

ENISA published “Threat Landscape of 5G Networks”

ENISA, the EU's always excellent cybersecurity watchdog, published "Threat Landscape of 5G Networks", a report on threats relating to 5G networks. The report presents...
Huawei Position Paper Cybersecurity 5G

Huawei releases its position paper on cyber security

Today Huawei released its position paper on cyber security. The paper is an excellent summary of 5G security risks, latest standards and industry developments...
Accelerating 5G in Canada Report

5G Will Have Significant Positive Impacts for Canadians

Cities and rural communities across Canada will see significant economic and quality-of-life benefits as 5G is deployed. According to a new report commissioned by the...
Canada Huawei 5G

Canadian Intelligence Agencies Disagree on Huawei Ban – Media

According to a recent media report, Canadian key intelligence agencies - the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) and the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) -...
UBC Rogers 5G

Rogers Opens First 5G-Powered Smart Campus at UBC

Rogers Communications, together with the University of British Columbia (UBC), announced the launch of what it claims to be Canada’s first 5G-powered smart campus...
Ericsson Concordia 5G

Ericsson Extends 5G Security Partnership with Concordia University

Ericsson has extended a 5G security partnership with Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, through a new industrial research chair awarded by the Natural Sciences...
Encqor Canada 5G

ENCQOR 5G Launches First Public mmWave Service in Canada

ENCQOR 5G (Evolution of Networked Services through a Corridor in Québec and Ontario for Research and Innovation) industry partnership announced that Canada's first publicly...
GSMA North America 5G

GSMA Report Highlights North America’s Global 5G Leadership

A new GSMA report highlights North America's global 5G leadership. The report - The Mobile EconomyNorth America 2019 - part of GSMA’s ongoing Mobile...
Prague 5G Security Conference

Officials from 32 countries gather in Prague to discuss 5G security

Security officials from EU nations, Japan, the United States and Australia gathered in Prague on Thursday and Friday to discuss 5G...
5G gear 5G security standard Huawei

Bloomberg: Vodafone found backdoors in Huawei 5G gear

For years U.S. and some of its allies are claiming that Huawei should not be trusted and that the Chinese company...

About me

Marin Ivezic

Marin Ivezic is a Cybersecurity & Privacy Partner in PwC Canada focused on risks of emerging technologies. He leads PwC’s global 5G cybersecurity efforts as well as industrial, IoT and critical infrastructure cybersecurity services in the region.
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My books

5G Business and Policy

5G World Economy Society

How 5G Will Transform Economy and Society

Since the dawn of the 21st Century, the ways in which people and organizations that use the Internet experience, perceive and act in the world is radically changing. We interact with physical objects and systems well beyond our sight and comprehension. Our cars, homes, factories and public transportation are controlled increasingly by computer chips and sensors. This interconnectedness already exceeds much of last century’s science fiction imaginings, but is poised to accelerate even more dramatically with the advent of 5G. Popular telecom carrier driven expectations about the speed and capacity of 5G consumer mobile...

5G Cybersecurity, Privacy, Technology

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 chain. First came 1G, the first generation of cellular communication that freed us to make voice calls without being tethered...

Geopolitics of 5G

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 first to establish technological platforms and lock-in their customers is increasingly becoming politicized. And 5G, the next generation of cellular...

Cyber-Kinetic Security

Cybersecurity IoT 5G Cyber-Kinetic Risks

Cyber-Kinetic Risk – Unintended Consequence of IoT in a 5G World

Getting smart about security in smart systems Smart used to be something we called people or pets. It wasn't a term one would use to describe one's hairbrush. That is changing, of course, in an era of accelerating digital transformation. Now we have smart homes, smart cities, smart grids, smart refrigerators and, yes, even smart hairbrushes. What's not so smart, though, is the way the cybersecurity and cyber-kinetic security risks of these systems are often overlooked, and with new horizon technologies like 5G, these problems are set to grow exponentially.

Smart-Everything World

Smart City 5G Privacy

Cyber-Kinetic Security and Privacy Threats in Smart Cities

More than half of the world’s population lives in cities. The UN estimates that by 2050 that proportion will be 68% - more than 6 billion people living in high-density conditions. This raises significant challenges. What is the best way to ensure that human needs are met in a fair and equitable way? How will we face challenges like resource strain, waste and pollution management, traffic congestion and connectivity? In response to these wicked problems, cities are increasingly relying on smart technologies to foster greater efficiency and sustainable growth. These interventions do not, however,...

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

AI Three Futures

Three Views of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Future

If you’ve read the many predictions about the future of AI, you’ve likely found them to be wildly different. They range from AI spelling doom for humanity, to AI ushering in Golden Age of peace, harmony and culture, to AI producing barely a blip on society’s path toward ever-greater technological achievement. Those three views – dystopian, utopian and organic – present issues we need to consider as we move deeper toward an AI-integrated future. Yet they also contain exaggerations and false assumptions that we need to separate from reality. The Dystopian...

Canada 5G and Emerging Tech

Canada 5G CA5G

Collaboration: The Unexpected Key to Success in Canada’s 5G

In 1967, Lynn Margulis, a young biologist, published a paper that challenged more than a hundred years of evolutionary theory. It proposed that millions of years ago, the eukaryotes emerged not from competition, as neo-Darwinism asserts, but from collaboration. Margulis’ research showed how single-celled lifeforms working together created an entirely new organism that became the foundation of all advanced life on earth. This was an inflection point in the development of evolutionary biology, shifting the scientific and cultural narrative away from “survival of the fittest” towards “survival of the most cooperative.” Though competition contributes to better individual or organizational performance, it...

5G, mIoT and Related Technologies Primer

5G SBA IMS MEC Architecture

Introduction to 5G Core Service Based Architecture (SBA) Components

The interest in 5G and mIoT is exploding. It's exciting to see so many IT and cybersecurity professionals in my network trying to learn more about 5G and related technologies. In addition to my usual articles about the societal impacts of these innovations, I'll start a series of articles introducing key 5G and mIoT technology concepts. Let's get started with reviewing the 5G core architecture and learning the first few dozen acronyms, out of approximately a gazillion. The cellular industry loves acronyms. Even more than the cybersecurity industry. 5G architecture is an evolution of current 4G architectures but based on a Service-Based...

Other

Quantum Computer 5G Security

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 connectivity and computation, expected sometime in the next decade, poses numerous new cryptography and cybersecurity challenges for 5G security. MIT offers...

Resources

IoT Protocols Speed RangeInternet of Things (IoT) Wireless Protocols

Comparison of key characteristics, including security basics, of 40 wireless protocols used for IoT.

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How #5G Will Transform Economy and Society - http://5G.Security Marin Ivezic - 5G will be truly transformative. However, the sobering #security vulnerabilities of #IIoT and massive #IoT systems must be dealt with urgently now... https://5gs.ec/2Z8rRUO

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Leadership in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Marin Ivezic - #AI’s effect on the workplace will not be limited merely to repetitive, production line-type jobs. Increasingly, it also enters the realm of highly trained knowledge workers https://5gs.ec/2WnDF3M

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#Geopolitics of #5G and 5G-Connected Massive & Critical #IoT - http://5G.Security Marin Ivezic - If #5G really starts delivering on its promise of driving the #4IR, every government and every industry should be worried about being left behind https://5gs.ec/2T0QsHg

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23 Aug 1297340288483172353

The Future of Artificial Intelligence #AI - http://5G.Security Marin Ivezic - Predictions about #future of AI range from doom for humanity, to AI ushering in Golden Age of peace, harmony and culture.. https://5gs.ec/2y10gtO

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23 Aug 1297329213641502720

Doctors want to put chips in your body to monitor tumors - Scientists are trying to develop tiny electronic chips that can go inside your body and watch for tumors or repair injuries. https://5gs.ec/3gkR6IK

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22 Aug 1297320655650725890

Oh what a feeling: New Toyotas will upload data to AWS to help create custom insurance premiums based on driver behaviour Connected car vision has been in first gear for years, cloudy scale could jump-start plans https://5gs.ec/3gmRuGm

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22 Aug 1297294996136243203

A Move for Driverless Mass Transit Hits Speed Bumps - Pilot projects for autonomous shuttles abound. But technical limitations and hostility from labor unions may thwart large deployments. https://5gs.ec/31im9k6

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22 Aug 1297209432137519104

Growing Cyber-Kinetic Threats to Railway Systems - Marin Ivezic - Cybersecuring railway systems from potential attackers must become paramount in the digitization. Their #cybersecurity is too closely interlinked with the #railway #safety. #CyberKinetic https://5gs.ec/2YXo8tp

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22 Aug 1297159094416138242

AI Is Neither the End of Civilization nor the Beginning of Nirvana - Marin Ivezic - Where #AI is taking us is one of the hottest topics being discussed. Perhaps the most striking thing about these discussions is how different people’s conclusions are. https://5gs.ec/3dwQwGK

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Defeating 21st Century Pirates: the Maritime Cyberattacks - http://5G.Security Marin Ivezic - Digitization in the #maritime industry is growing, and cyberattacks are growing along with it. #Cybersecurity #CyberKinetic https://5gs.ec/3bqxPTy

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20 Aug 1296253126606028801

Diversity – The Benefits of Being Uncomfortable - Marin Ivezic - Working in a diverse team feels harder, but is actually more effective. Working in diverse groups encourages more comprehensive analysis and leads to superior results #DiversityandInclusion https://5gs.ec/2Lpu8mF

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5G and AI - Getting Smart About 5G and AI in Canada - http://5G.Security Marin Ivezic - Canada has been investing in AI for longer than most of the industrialized world To benefit from it, Canada should focus on developing #5G and #AI in tandem https://5gs.ec/2WMHHSt

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Internet of Things (IoT) Wireless Protocols - http://5G.Security Marin Ivezic - Comparison of key characteristics, including security basics, of 40 key #IoT wireless protocols #5G #lpwan https://5gs.ec/3dSRBbU

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Securing Cyber-Physical Systems: Overcoming 3 Hurdles to a Holistic Approach - It is clear that more #CriticalInfrastructure organizations need take a holistic approach to securing #CyberPhysical systems https://5gs.ec/3kNaS2J

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18 Aug 1295773963319234560

What is the impact of the pandemic on managed services providers? - Help Net Security - The study surveyed 500 MSPs across Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand... #CyberSecurity https://5gs.ec/3125XU1

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18 Aug 1295763898667343872

In reality, how important is zero trust? - Help Net Security - Although most pros think of #ZeroTrust as an important part of their #cybersecurity approach, many still have a long way to go on their quest to deploying it, according to Illumio. https://5gs.ec/2DV9AlO

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18 Aug 1295759931501617159

AI-Exacerbated Disinformation and #Cyber Threats to Democracy - http://5G.Security Marin Ivezic - #Disinformation increase makes it harder to discern truth from disinformation. #AI-driven disinformation will be able to spread considerably faster https://5gs.ec/2WNNVS6

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18 Aug 1295743012262248451

China-linked threat actor tracked as CactusPete was employing an updated backdoor in recent attacks targeting military and financial organizations in Eastern Europe. #CyberSecurity https://5gs.ec/3iKNnpe

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