5G technology is revolutionizing enterprise operations across various sectors. It offers unprecedented speed, reliability and connectivity, enabling businesses to enhance productivity and efficiency. With this enhanced capacity, companies can reap the rewards of a secure remote workforce and streamlined operations through automation and real-time monitoring.
5G has also opened up new possibilities for innovation in augmented reality, virtual reality, internet of things (IoT), autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) applications, connected vehicles, and more. With data transfer rates up to 100 times faster than 4G, 5G supports seamless streaming, real-time applications and the simultaneous connection of numerous devices.
Furthermore, 5G's low latency and high-bandwidth capabilities drive digital transformation, allowing businesses to explore new revenue streams, optimize resource management, and deliver a more personalized customer experience. It’s no wonder 5G adoption worldwide is expected to contribute about $8 trillion to the global economy by 2030.
Balancing 5G Opportunity and Cybersecurity Risk
Enterprises face various cybersecurity risks as they increasingly adopt 5G technology. The widespread adoption of 5G significantly increases the number of connected devices and data points within enterprise networks. This expanded attack surface provides more entry points for cybercriminals, making networks more vulnerable to various threats, including Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks and data breaches.
The proliferation of IoT devices in enterprise 5G networks introduces significant security challenges. Many IoT devices lack robust built-in security measures, making them potential weak points for unauthorized network access.
With 5G enabling faster data transfer and supporting more connected devices, enterprises face increased data protection and privacy risks, zero-day threats, malware and unauthorized access to sensitive information, potentially leading to data breaches and compliance issues. The enhanced speeds and faster data rates of 5G networks enable cyberattacks to occur at unprecedented speeds, and coupled with recent advancements in AI, the bad actors can cause serious harm and detrimental impact to businesses.
Introducing Prisma SASE 5G
At Palo Alto Networks, we always take a first-principles approach to building products. It starts with deep discovery and understanding of the problem space, customer use cases and then building the industry’s best-in-class products to address these challenges globally. Three things stood out to us:
- Enterprises primarily consume and rely on 5G technology from 5G service providers.
- A platformization approach is critical for comprehensive Zero Trust security across myriad 5G use cases.
- 5G service providers need a cybersecurity partner of choice to deliver converged 5G network-based security solutions to enterprises.
Today, we’re incredibly excited to announce that Prisma® SASE 5G is now generally available for our service provider partners.
Palo Alto Networks provides best-in-class cybersecurity solutions to address organizations' security risks. Our cloud-based solutions, powered by Precision AI®, provide seamless Zero Trust security for connected enterprises. Prisma SASE 5G harnesses the proven capabilities of Prisma SASE to provide industry-leading security for enterprises connected to service providers’ 5G networks. Service providers, including mobile network operators (MNOs) and multiple-system operators (MSOs), can enhance security for their enterprise customers with best of breed SASE security to their enterprise customers with their 5G networks.
Unlock New 5G Revenue Opportunities with Faster Time to Market (TTM)
To an extent, service providers risk being viewed solely as connectivity “pipe” providers. Prisma SASE 5G offers a way for service providers to enhance their value proposition to their enterprise customers with comprehensive security that is truly unified with their 5G connectivity. This can be achieved with minimal infrastructure changes, expediting time to market (TTM).
5G service providers can integrate Prisma SASE 5G with minimal touchpoints to the 5G network. Prisma SASE 5G is completely cloud-delivered and supports dynamically scalable, high-bandwidth cloud interconnect with 5G networks to provide comprehensive security for all 5G users and devices, no matter where they’re or what applications they access.
Prisma SASE 5G also enables global coverage, customer data residency requirements, carrier-grade reliability and industry-leading SLAs and resiliency to meet the stringent needs of today's businesses.
Leverage Service Provider SIM-based Identities and Authentication
With Prisma SASE 5G, service providers can leverage their own subscriber identity modules (SIMs) and 5G authentication systems, making SIM-based identities central to enterprise SASE.
Prisma SASE 5G allows granular policy definition and enforcement based on 5G device identifiers such as international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) and international mobile equipment identity (IMEI) to ensure secure connectivity for all 5G devices, apps and users anytime, anywhere. This provides complete visibility of 5G devices in the enterprise and enables them to ensure security governance for all their 5G devices and infrastructure. Service providers can effectively address competition, from inside and outside their industry, while providing customers with differentiated 5G network-based security outcomes.
Protect Enterprises from Highly Evasive Threats with Zero Trust Security, Powered by Precision AI
Prisma SASE 5G harnesses the power of Precision AI to safeguard against even the most evasive threats. It can identify up to 9 million new attacks and block up to 30 billion attacks inline daily.
The continuous learning and pattern recognition delivered with AI-powered Prisma SASE 5G can predict potential threats, giving security teams the necessary insights to take preventive measures and provide holistic security to 5G-powered enterprises. Prisma SASE 5G covers a broad spectrum of threats, such as zero-day threats, malicious malware and URLs, and monitors sensitive corporate data for 5G mobile and cellular IoT/OT devices.
Prisma SASE 5G offers flexible packages that can be leveraged for secure internet and SaaS application security, including Advanced URL Filtering, Advanced Threat Prevention, DNS Security, enterprise private application security, IoT security, AI security, data loss prevention (DLP) and more, on a per-customer basis.
Deliver Unified SASE Security Across All Networks
We realize that service providers offer 5G connectivity and a wide range of connectivity solutions to their enterprise customers, such as 5G fixed wireless access and private 5G and wireline networks that include MPLS, fiber optic and broadband. Unified SASE security across all these types of networks is key for an effective cybersecurity-first, digital transformation model to be effective for their customers.
Prisma SASE provides unique value to service providers through its singular and consistent platform and architecture, which delivers comprehensive security across all connectivity paradigms.
In addition, Prisma SD-WAN, with support for 5G, multiprotocol label switching (MPLS), and internet circuits and intelligent application-aware WAN path selection, enables enterprises to securely connect their corporate branch offices with their private data centers or internet, SaaS-hosted applications with a unified security fabric.
With hierarchical multitenancy, administrators gain a single pane of glass for complete lifecycle management with deep network and security health visibility. With ADEM and AIOps, administrators can quickly address issues and continuously enhance the security posture while delivering an excellent user experience for their enterprise customers.
Reap the Benefits of Prisma SASE for Your 5G Enterprises
With Prisma SASE 5G, service providers can offer enterprises better security outcomes without an infrastructure overhaul and with fast TTM. This best-in-class security platform strengthens enterprise customers' overall security posture while providing additional revenue opportunities that drive business growth.
The "network" in network security is yours, now let the “security” be yours too. With Palo Alto Networks, you have the industry’s best cybersecurity vendor by your side.
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