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In-Person July Chapter Meeting

Date and Time

Thursday, July 18, 2024, 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM

Location

Capital One
1680 Capital One Drive, Room 100A
McLean, VA  22102
USA
Videoconference information will be provided in an email once payment is received.

Event Contact(s)

Ryan J Bellack

Category

Chapter Meetings

Registration Info

Registration is required

About this event

Please join ISC2 Northern Virginia Chapter on Thursday July 18, 2024, at 6pm.


Event Location:

1680 Capital One Drive
McLean VA 22102
Room 100A

Event Agenda:

6:00 - 6:30pm      Check-in
6:30 - 8:00pm    Chapter Meeting

 
Parking Information: 

Please park at the "C2 Garage" that is directly connected to the building we will have the Chapter meeting.


Topic of Discussion:5G Cybersecurity

NIST is taking an applied and collaborative approach to 5g cybersecurity guidance, by collaborating with industry partners to provide cybersecurity guidance that will help consumers and operators of 5G networks to adopt, deploy and use these systems in a more secure and privacy-enhancing way. One of the primary focuses of our research is to introduce hardware based security protections for a 5G core network. This is possible because for the first time in mobile network design, 5G standards introduced the notion of a Service Based Architecture (SBA). The new design changes the way new services are created and how these telco systems operate. The standards designed 5G to operate as a modern cloud or internet application where the 5G components or ‘Network Functions’ (NFs), that handle everything from authentication to billing run as complex cloud native applications. The shift to cloud infrastructure enables 5g core networks to leverage cots hardware, firmware and software platforms and make it possible to introduce more robust cybersecurity protections. We will share what we have implemented to date, the risks these solutions address, and future use cases that can leverage these capabilities.

Speaker:   

Jeff Cichonski
Cybersecurity Engineer @ NIST



Speaker Bio:

Jeff Cichonski is a Cybersecurity Engineer working with a broad array of technologies at the National Institute of Standards and Technology; working in the Applied Cybersecurity Division of the Information Technology Laboratory. He is an active member of 3GPP’s SA3 working group, the standards group responsible for specifying cellular security architectures and has been engaged in the development of 5G security. He is leading the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence’s 5G Cybersecurity effort, a collaboration with industry providing a holistic approach to cybersecurity for 5g systems. Jeff has also been involved applied cybersecurity research focusing on cybersecurity for industrial control systems, next generation credentials, and LTE network security, with a specific interest in security for public safety cellular Implementations. He has a Bachelor of Science In Information Science and Technology from Penn State University.