Real-time Security Monitoring Detection and Mitigation in 5G Networks

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Special Presentation by Ashutosh Dutta, JHU/ALP, USA

Hosted by the IEEE Future Networks Security & Privacy Working Group

Date/Time: Friday, 18 July 2025 @ 9:00 AM EDT

Topic:

Real-time Security Monitoring Detection and Mitigation in 5G Networks 

Abstract:

 JHU/APL has been building a security and monitoring testbed for the last year that serves as a proof of concept of some of the security controls in 5G Standalone (SA) architecture. This testbed report highlights the results from four different prototypes addressing cybersecurity requirements for mission critical users. This includes generating, detecting, and mitigating attacks on the control plane (e.g., Next-Generation Application Protocol [NGAP]), the user plane [General Packet Radio Services (GPRS) Tunnelling Protocol User Plane (GTP-U)], Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services (including Session Initiation Protocol [SIP] and Real-time Transport Protocol [RTP]), and service-oriented interfaces within the control plane (e.g., Hypertext Transfer Protocol 2.0 [HTTPv2]). The service providers and enterprise providers will find the results and methodologies from these experiments useful as they plan to deploy security controls either to fulfill the security requirements or further mitigate cyber-attacks on their commercial networks. These security controls and mitigation techniques will help provide desired quality of service to mission critical users in spite of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Results from four use cases demonstrate that many of the attacks in the control plane and user plane can be mitigated if proper security controls are applied.

Speaker:

Ashutosh Dutta brings in a unique blend of industry and academic experience. He is currently Chief 5G Strategist at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Labs and serves as associate research professor and the director of Doctor of Engineering program at Johns Hopkins University in addition to his teaching. His past career spanning more than 30 years, includes Director of Technology Security and Lead Member of Technical Staff at AT&T, CTO of  cybersecurity company NIKSUN, Senior Scientist in Telcordia Research, Director of Central Research Facility at Columbia University, and Computer Engineer with TATA Motors. Ashutosh has published more than 110 papers, IEEE-Wiley book on Handoff Optimization, 6 book chapters and has 31 issued patents. As a Technical Leader in 5G, Ashutosh has served as the founding Co-Chair for the IEEE Future Networks (https://futurenetworks.ieee.org/), IEEE Connecting The Unconnected (ctu.ieee.org) and IEEE 5G/6G Innovation Testbed (testbed.ieee.org).  Ashutosh served as IEEE Communications Society's Distinguished Lecturer for 2017-2020. He has served in IEEE Communications Society's director of Industry Outreach Board (2014-2019) and has been serving as Member-At-Large (2020-2025). He initiated and organized more than 90 5G Summits around the world (www.5gsummit.org) and has served as founding Co-Chair of IEEE Future Networks World Forum (https://fnwf2025.ieee.org/) since 2018. Ashutosh has served as Workshop Co-Chair in ICC and Industry Forum and Exhibits Co-Chair in Globecom. His most notable awards include, 2022 North American Region Exceptional Service Award, 2009 IEEE MGA Leadership award, 2022 IEEE-USA George F. McClure Citation of Honor, and IPv6 Hall of Fame in 2024. Ashutosh is a Distinguished Alumnus of NIT Rourkela with BS in Electrical Engineering, MS in Computer Science from NJIT, and Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University under the supervision of Prof. Henning Schulzrinne. Ashutosh is a Fellow of IEEE, Distinguished member of ACM, Fellow of AAIA, and Member of National Academy of Artificial Intelligence. Ashutosh is currently a candidate for IEEE Communication Society's VP of Conferences.