DHS Seeks To Ensure 5G Cybersecurity
June 1, 2022 – Published on AFCEA’s Signal Magazine
A Homeland Security Department program designed to secure fifth-generation cellular communications known as 5G could complete the last of its nine projects next year.
All cellular communications technologies come with security weaknesses. That includes 5G capabilities, which are becoming increasingly critical to the homeland security mission, according to a departmental guidebook on the Secure and Resilient Mobile Network Infrastructure program (SRMNI) and its sister program Emergency Communications Research and Development. The Homeland Security Department’s Science and Technology Directorate leads the SRMNI program to fill technology gaps identified by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).
As the Homeland Security Department—and the nation—advance toward a next-generation wireless infrastructure, the program aims to secure that infrastructure.
GuidePoint Security has been leading a project designed to improve protection and monitoring of devices accessing mobile networks by building protective DNS capabilities and services while adhering to privacy laws and regulations. As agencies have become mobile and employees work remotely, they need DNS security without backhauling traffic through a virtual private network to agency networks and to a static trusted Internet connection, the fact sheet for this project suggests. It adds that backhauling traffic to on-premises infrastructure impedes the ability of mobile users to effectively complete their work, which can have a negative impact on the agency’s mission because of network performance issues resulting from high latency and low throughput of virtual private network implementations.
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