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White Paper: A Blueprint for a Cloud Native Telco
Cloud Native principles and tools are now the only way forward for telcos to achieve their digital transformation goals. This White Paper articulates what this means in terms of working practices, development and operations models and new security requirements.

Briefing: Ericsson and Nokia Complete 5G CyberHack
80 hackers gathered in Oulu, Finland, over the last week-end of November 2019 to crawl all over Ericsson and Nokia's 5G network products and see what flaws they could find. HardenStance attended and published this Briefing on what happened and why it matters.

Briefing: Telcos Invest in Fake Infrastructure
Some telcos are investing in deception technology. According to Attivo Networks, one telco customer found enough unauthorized and malicious behaviour by employees to warrant firing them on the spot. There are telecom infrastructure use cases too.

Blog: AR for Cyber Training? I’m In
I took the AT&T Chief Security Office "Security Challenge" at the AT&T Business Summit in Dallas last week. Here's what I made of it.

Briefing: Dutch People Engage in IoT Clean-Up
Research by the Delft University of Technology, carried out in partnership with KPN, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and others, suggests consumers may be more willing to engage in cleaning up IoT infections than they tend to be given credit for.

Briefing: T-Systems Targets UK Security Market
T-Systems wants to become Europe's largest provider of cyber security services. This HardenStance Briefing looks at how growing market share in the UK is key to achieving that goal.

White Paper: Next Steps in Playbook-Driven Cyber Security
This White Paper, sponsored by The Cyber Threat Alliance, IBM Security, KPN and Nokia looks at the importance of using Defensive and Incident Response (IR) playbooks as a foundational building block of security automation.

Blog: NSS Labs Suit vs AMTSO Dismissed
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has dismissed the NSS Labs Anti Trust lawsuit against AMTSO. Thank goodness.

Report: Security Imperatives for Digital Transformation
The TM Forum commissioned HardenStance to research and write a report on some of the security challenges faced by telecom operators as they undergo digital transformation - and best practice as regards mitigating them.

Briefing: A New Window into an OpenC2 World
The OpenC2 Forum has approved its first specifications, putting the standard on a footing with which it can scale out into commercial deployments and increase speed and efficiency in cyber security operations.

White Paper: “Home Router Security: The Buck Stops Where?
A compromised home network threatens other users and infrastructure, not just the immediate residents. This new White Paper looks at what can be done about it and who by.

Briefing: The NSS Labs Apology to CrowdStrike
The NSS Labs apology to CrowdStrike and resolution of their lawsuits is progress as far as it goes. But it still leaves outstanding the NSS antitrust suit against AMTSO.