Inseego and CyberReef Partnership Seeks to Secure 5G Mobile Access
This week, 5G enterprise cloud WAN equipment provider Inseego and mobile firewall maker CyberReef announced a partnership the two companies say will help streamline the deployment of secure 5G mobile access applications.
The global 5G technology market is expected to remain white-hot. Market research firm Allied Market Research said the 5G technology market was valued at $5.13 billion in 2020 but is projected to reach $798 billion by 2030. That’s just shy of a 66% annual growth rate. The investments come as executives believe advanced 5G wireless can transform their organizations and even enable new business models. Yet, security concerns persist.
CyberReef’s MobileWall is a cloud-based firewall designed to secure mobile wireless access through on-demand mobile private networking and manage data usage with filtering and app throttling capabilities. According to CyberReef, app throttling enables organizations to slow specific high-bandwidth applications, optimize mobile network use, improve mobile service quality and eliminate mobile data overages.
CyberReef’s MobileWall will be delivered through Inseego’s Wavemaker 5G fixed wireless access (FWA) line of products and is integrated with the CyberReef MobileWall.
According to Inseego, the Wavemaker 5G FWA portfolio is certified with all leading U.S. mobile operators and supports 5G Sub-6 GHz and mmWave, C-band, CBRS, LTE, and Wi-Fi 6. The Wavemaker 5G FWA portfolio also supports advanced security features, IP pass-through, and critical networking routing functions. Devices can be remotely managed with Inseego Connect or with existing out-of-band management software, the company said.
Glenn Longley, VP of product management at Inseego, said their 5G devices can be deployed as the primary 5G device or as an upgrade to existing 4G failover or wireless networks. MobileWall provides additional layers of security designed for government, health care, education and retail organizations–vertical industries that all have specific sets of data regulatory requirements.
Longley added that the combination provides customers with secure WAN that enables compliance to such mandates as the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), HIPAA and PCI-DSS.
“It cuts time and red tape by providing IT organizations with peace of mind—an out-of-box set of solutions provided by U.S.-based suppliers that address connectivity and U.S.-government compliance requirements in the areas of retail and other purchasing transactions, education and health care for a wide variety of use cases,” he said.
If organizations are going to reap the benefits of 5G, those networks will need to be secure. “Some of the greatest promise for 5G and IoT still remains just over the horizon,” Longley added. “Technology like network slicing, ultra-low-latency connections and networks that adjust much more quickly to changing demands are yet to be commercially deployed at any scale in the wild. But these are also coming fast.”