Mitigating Potential Security Threats to Zero-Touch Network & Service Automation

This is the 4th and last event of the 2023 ETSI ZSM Webinar Series. The ultimate target of zero-touch network & service automation is a largely autonomous operation, enabling self-management, self-healing and self-optimization – without further human intervention. Trust is a major barrier to adoption and striving to build it requires a continuous learning process. As more automation processes are deployed and operate securely and efficiently, human trust will increase. Having native security (e.g. an adaptive secured framework, access control, trustworthiness, data protection) can help to establish confidence and instill trust as the automated processes deliver the intended business outcomes. The webinar will present the results of the comprehensive study that was conducted by the ZSM group in ETSI report ZSM010 on potential security threats and risks to the ZSM framework and solutions. It will introduce mitigation options, countermeasures and security controls to address them. Furthermore, it will present additional capabilities and services being specified in ETSI ZSM 014 to ensure secured and trusted ZSM framework and solutions. Finally, a PoC on security SLA assurance in 5G network slices will be demonstrated.