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5G was promised to enterprises, critical-infrastructure operators, and industrial IoT verticals as a generational leap in confi dentiality, mutual authentication, and protection against location tracking. The reality on the ground tells a more nuanced story.
This briefi ng offers a strategic perspective on the structural assumptions embedded in cellular access , assumptions that increasingly fail to hold under modern adversary capabilities and the open-source proliferation of radio software.

The session is framed around a single question: how much of the security narrative behind 5G specifi cations can be relied upon when the underlying protocols still inherit decades of mobility-fi rst, performance-fi rst design choices? The talk walks the audience through the categories of weakness that persist across commercial deployments going from privacy gaps in subscriber-identifi er handling, to risks introduced by backward compatibility with legacy radio generations or to opaque modem behaviours that turn standard signalling into operational risk. None of these classes is theoretical, each has direct implications for connectivity availability, identity confi dentiality, and the trustworthiness of cellular supply chains.

The talk reframes 5G subscriber identity and access as a Zero Trust problem. Every unauthenticated broadcast, every unverifi ed network message, and every predictable identifi er becomes an exploitable trust boundary the moment an adversary has access to commodity radio hardware. From this premise, the session closes with a roadmap for mobile operators, Open RAN vendors, and regulators to move beyond compliance toward continuous verifi cation, Autonomous Security Operations, and AI-Driven Forensics across cyber-physical 5G infrastructure.