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The HSD Trendmonitor is designed to provide access to relevant content on various subjects in the safety and security domain, to identify relevant developments and to connect knowledge and organisations. The safety and security domain encompasses a vast number of subjects. Four relevant taxonomies (type of threat or opportunity, victim, source of threat and domain of application) have been constructed in order to visualize all of these subjects. The taxonomies and related category descriptions have been carefully composed according to other taxonomies, European and international standards and our own expertise.
In order to identify safety and security related trends, relevant reports and HSD news articles are continuously scanned, analysed and classified by hand according to the four taxonomies. This results in a wide array of observations, which we call ‘Trend Snippets’. Multiple Trend Snippets combined can provide insights into safety and security trends. The size of the circles shows the relative weight of the topic, the filters can be used to further select the most relevant content for you. If you have an addition, question or remark, drop us a line at info@securitydelta.nl.
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5G and the IoT will accelerate and multiply cyber-attacks
The roll-out of 5G has started in Europe. It offers the promise of processing more data, more quickly. This opens the way to the development of a real Internet of things (IoT), the nature and applications of which will be varied (telemedicine, self-driving vehicles, smart buildings, etc.) or which will profoundly change the geography of a company’s networks. Which will also increase the attack surface. Among the risks inherent to 5G, Accenture mentions “the hyper precision of geolocation and the explosion in both the volume and speed of the network”. It has to be said that the distributed nature of 5G networks, to which a multitude of connected objects with dubious security will be connected, further reduces the visibility of threats. Because 5G technology brings with it its own range of vulnerabilities. And requires a specific form of cybersecurity based on integrated protection, governance and user data protection. On this topic, it should be noted that in December 2020, Europe launched an audit to check that the cybersecurity of 5G technology currently deployed in several countries meets the required levels.