AI for Beyond 5G Networks: A Cyber-Security Defense or Offense Enabler?
It addresses security challenges for future network operators, but is incremental as it reviews existing issues without proposing new methods.
The paper examines AI's dual role in 5G and beyond networks, highlighting how it can enhance security through intelligent management but also pose risks as an offensive tool or target, and recommends defenses while noting their limitations.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is envisioned to play a pivotal role in empowering intelligent, adaptive and autonomous security management in 5G and beyond networks, thanks to its potential to uncover hidden patterns from a large set of time-varying multi-dimensional data, and deliver faster and accurate decisions. Unfortunately, AI's capabilities and vulnerabilities make it a double-edged sword that may jeopardize the security of future networks. This paper sheds light on how AI may impact the security of 5G and its successive from its posture of defender, offender or victim, and recommends potential defenses to safeguard from malevolent AI while pointing out their limitations and adoption challenges.