With the introduction of 5G transforming telecommunications, the wireless WAN network needs to be properly maintained to evolve in both efficiency and security. As 5G brings in more bandwidth and unlimited data plans, it’s adding more devices and use cases, enabling easier remote work, while also ushering in new security challenges simultaneously. Safeguarding 5G networks calls for a a marriage of different measures and methods and Cradlepoint Inc. is helping achieve this.

Cradlepoint’s Anubhav Arora talks with theCUBE about safeguarding 5g networks.

“So how do you actually create a network that automatically takes care of most of those risks, in a manner that access to these devices, access from these devices, communication patterns that are restricted or understood to be threatening, are not allowed?” asked Anubhav Arora (pictured), vice president of security engineering at Cradlepoint. “Zero trust is the answer, why? Implemented correctly, zero trust actually starts to take away all of these threat attack surfaces.”

Arora spoke with theCUBE Research’s Shelly Kramer at the RSA Conference, during an exclusive broadcast on theCUBE, SiliconANGLE Media’s livestreaming studio. They discussed how Cradlepoint secures the 5G networks, the importance of zero trust security approaches and what cellular optimizations are on the horizon for Cradlepoint. (* Disclosure below.)

Uniting network and security services for safeguarding 5g networks

Secure Access Service Edge is a cloud architecture model allowing network and security-as-a-service to function together in a single service. Combined with zero trust methods, it’s an efficient way to deal with many security disruptions threatening 5G.

“At CradlePoint, we construct our NetCloud SASE solution completely from zero-trust principles ground up,” Arora said. “But that’s not necessarily the case for every network or every vendor. So as people are thinking about constructing their networks, constructing their SASE, choosing their SASE vendors, putting their basic tenets into place, who can access what? What kind of policies? What kind of openings we have allowing in our network? It’s important to understand both, zero trust and how SASE vendors are building their networks with zero trust.”

As the demand for secure optimized 5G networks increases, CradlePoint is working hard to deliver it to its users. The 5G SASE recently introduced includes multiple optimizations for ensuring that the quality for business-critical applications over cellular networks is maintained, including safeguarding 5g networks.

“We have multiple innovative technologies in place to be able to do so, and we also make sure that the security on that network is zero trust, as we were just talking about,” Arora said. “Zero-trust architecture, use of SIM identity as something that we can evaluate as a policy element … as well as maintaining quality of experience for business-critical applications, that’s what we are set out to do.”

Here’s the complete video interview, part of SiliconANGLE’s and theCUBE Research’s coverage of the RSA Conference:

(* Disclosure: TheCUBE is a paid media partner for the RSA Conference. Neither RSA Conference LLC, the sponsor of theCUBE’s event coverage, nor other sponsors have editorial control over content on theCUBE or SiliconANGLE.)

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