Security for Mobile Operators, ISPs and MSSPs 

When the world's largest Communication Service Provider (CSP) event-Mobile World Congress 2019-convenes in Barcelona this month, Fortinet will be front and center. Our goal will be to help CSPs create trust within their internal networks as well as for the mobile core, cloud, and managed services they provide for their customers, through our advanced security solutions, 24x7 services, and global partner ecosystem.

To discuss specific security challenges and needs, and learn more about our broad family of award-wining security solutions, CSPs can schedule meetings with Fortinet experts at www.fortinet-mwc.com, or just drop by our booth.

The Fortinet presence at this year's MWC event will focus on three primary themes:

1. Securing the Path to 5G

Nearly all mobile operators are transitioning their networks to 4.5G as a step toward ultimately supporting a 5G New Radio Access Network and Next Generation Core. This transition requires shifting from a predominantly physical infrastructure to a largely virtualized one. While the resulting agility and flexibility allows operators to better respond to new customer demands, they also require security to be implemented as Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). To meet service requirements including carrier grade SLAs without driving up cost and complexity security VNFs have to be lightweight, provide deep application layer visibility, support rapid elastic scaling, and deliver multi-gigabit performance. They also require close integration with the mobile operator's orchestration and management layers. And they need to interoperate seamlessly with their existing physical security solutions in order to create and sustain a single high trust security framework.

Ultimately, protecting a 5G network will require: