D2.1 SoA analysis & benchmark assessment
Creators: name: AL-Naday, Mays
name: La, Vinh
name: Montes, Edgardo
name: Sebrechts, Merlijn
name: Paolucci, Francesco
name: Abu Bakar, Rana
name: Khan, Abdul
name: Volckaert, Bruno
name: Fúster, Jaime
name: González, Roberto
name: Voros, Peter
name: Kamel, Mohammed B. M.
name: Kecskeméti, Károly
name: Joaquín, Escudero
name: Pose, J.
name: Nezhadsistani, Nasim
name: Schiller, Eryk
name: Lalas, Antonios
name: Drosou, Anastasios
name: Passas, Virgilios
name: Kalafatidis, Sarantis
name: Giapantzis, Konstantinos
name: Makris, Nikolaos
name: Syrigos, Ilias
name: Agrafiotis, Georgios
name: Safianowska, Maria
name: Mowla, Md Munjure
name: Lefebvre, Vincent
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: 6G is emerging as the next generation of mobile networks, integrating tactile and mission-critical application domains with significant impact on daily lives. To enable a sustainable 6G ecosystem, with reliable operation of its services and confidence in maintaining service level agreements, there is a critical need to tackle the cybersecurity challenges emerging with 6G propositions. Some of such challenges are inherited from 5G as they have not been fully addressed, while others are novel with the adoption of new enablers. The latter is particularly true with the adoption of AI, introducing new risks to AI security as well as data privacy. The mission of the NATWORK project is to develop a flexible and adaptive cybersecurity framework of solutions that are sustainable and adaptive to 6G threats and cascade attacks against 6G infrastructure and/or its services.To be able to develop such efficient and adaptive cybersecurity solutions that meet 6G expectations, there is need first to analyse the foreseen security challenges associated with emerging propositions of the 6G architecture and its requirements; and review the landscape of threats and attacks already perceived in 5G and how they can evolve in 6G. Particularly, taking into account the infrastructure complexity and expectation of frictionless provision of services and seamless management over multiple autonomous 6G systems. It is further required to review state-of-the-art cybersecurity solutions, adopted in various domains relevant to 6G and assess their adoption in 6G to counter expected threats.This document comprehensively reviews state-of-the-art in cybersecurity of 5G and 6G networks, services and relevant technologies. It analyses the challenges associated with various components in 6G, from the radio access to the core network and from edge to core clouds. The document provides a detailed analysis of AI application for cybersecurity in 5G/6G and the security of AI when adopted in network operations. It further reviews challenges and threats to data privacy when sharing for AI training. Complementarily, the document reviews the affected threat mitigations KPIs by different types of attacks along with state-of-the-art cybersecurity solutions adopted in the various relevant domains. The above are used to set the priority challenges of the NATWORK project and guide the research and innovation efforts in cybersecurity solutions, within the technical work packages in the rest of the project timeline.