Keeping 5G networks secure from cybersecurity threats is critical to realising its full-fledged benefits to consumers, organisations, and enterprises in the long run. 5G connectivity must therefore be consistent and reliable.

DNB understands the significant cybersecurity risk and adversarial interest from a range of threat actors towards DNB, critical national infrastructure (CNI) and 5G telecommunications organisations.

With this in mind, the Cybersecurity Office was created as part of DNB’s mandate to securely deploy the nation’s 5G telecommunications infrastructure. The Cybersecurity Office is critical to ensuring the safety, security, and digital resilience of the organisation, the services offered, and the data managed.

The Cybersecurity Office is empowered to ensure that DNB’s 5G network is resilient against cyberattacks. This includes not only the ability to detect threats, but to recover from them, and comply with both domestic and international laws, regulations, and standards.

DNB’s Cybersecurity Office covers the following four focus areas:

• Protect, Shield, Defend, and Prevent cyberattacks in the organisation
• Monitor, Detect, and Hunt malicious and potentially damaging activities
• Respond, Recover, and Sustain operations in the event of a significant incident
• Govern, Manage and Comply with regulatory and cybersecurity risk requirements

DNB is committed to the adoption of international standards (e.g. NIST, 3GPP, GSMA) and collaboration with not just regulators, but the broader ecosystem, robust internal education, as well as a 24/7 Security Operations Centre.