Telecom

Protecting a Network Without Concrete Boundaries
Communication service providers (CSPs) are required to invest more time, money and resources in security to build “digital trust” with their customers, especially as the openness of 5G environments and complexity of ...

Why the Telecom Industry Must Prioritize Cybersecurity
Increasing competition within the broadband market, multi-access edge computing and private cellular networks and the demand for cybersecurity risk management in the 5G era are gaining momentum in telecommunications. As a result, ...

CSPs reveal what’s really happening with 5G
Over the years, the team here at Allot has amassed quite a library of Telco Trends Reports, which we publish as important developments occur within the industry. Our latest report dives in ...

How Chinese hackers managed to breach major telcos and lessons from the episode
Chinese threat actors have managed to break into multiple telecommunications giants across the world in a campaign drive lasting over two years as per reports. The hacker groups behind the episode managed ...

Do we really need 5G?
As I mentioned in a previous blog post, 4G is really pretty good. It makes quite a few useful things possible: fast general Internet access (on the order of DSL) download and ...

Why is 5G called 5G?
I know you’ve probably heard a lot about 5G already. But, did you ever actually stop for a moment to consider the simple question – why is it called 5G? Simply put, ...

The power of real-time capabilities for communication service providers
A colleague of mine recently alerted me to a white paper she read about the competitive advantage of real-time. The concept of “real-time” remains a hot topic, and I can appreciate the ...

Can network congestion ever, really, truly be managed?
Network congestion continues to be an ongoing problem for Communication Service Providers (CSPs) all over the world. The situation was made all too clear recently with the release of Squid Game, Netflix’s ...

Examples of Large & Small Business Cyber Attacks: Fighting for Survival Against a New Wave of Cyber Criminals
There are two types of businesses in the world today. Those that have been attacked by cybercriminals, and those that haven’t, yet. In what is becoming increasingly clear, most of these businesses ...

How European telecoms defend their customers from the latest cybersecurity threats
Have you seen the latest cyberthreat report? The numbers are mind-boggling! Our data show that Allot’s network security services blocked cyberthreats from harming European subscribers 653,996,978 times in the first half of ...