
5G Essentials: Fundamentals and Security
This Learning Path provides a comprehensive introduction to 5G technology, covering its architecture, key components, and use cases. You'll explore concepts like the 5G core network, RAN, and slicing, laying a strong foundation for understanding modern telecommunications. Building on this, a dedicated lab focuses on 5G security, where you'll learn about vulnerabilities, threat mitigation, and securing the 5G core and radio interfaces through hands-on scenarios.
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Audiences
Learning Path Flow:

Lab Architecture:
The Lab architecture seamlessly integrates cutting-edge technologies to create a comprehensive environment for 5G, which includes a 5G core Network equipped with a gNodeb and a UE that allow the user to test the different end-to-end use cases in 5G.

Lab Objectives:
- Develop the ability to assess 4G and 5G networks from an end-to-end (E2E) engineering perspective, optimizing architecture, latency, and throughput.
- Gain knowledge in 5G NR advancements to ensure seamless radio and core integration
- Master the full stack of 5G protocols—NGAP, GTP, SCTP, HTTP/2—and understand their interactions across the RAN, transport, and core network for efficient troubleshooting and optimization.
- Acquire hands-on experience with E2E traffic analysis using Wireshark, focusing on signaling flows, DNS resolution, PDU session establishment, and user-plane data inspection for network validation.
Lab Architecture:
This Hands-on Training consists of a simulated 5G network environment focused on security. Participants will explore cyberattacks, threat mitigation, and governance requirements while identifying and defending against 5G-specific vulnerabilities, such as service-based attacks, network slicing risks, and more.
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Lab Objectives:
- Gain a comprehensive understanding of cybersecurity fundamentals, including common cyberattacks and threat actors.
- Develop knowledge of security protections across physical, network, and account levels.
- Understand governance and compliance requirements for network security.
- Acquire insights into the unique security challenges of Private 5G networks and network slicing.
- Learn effective strategies to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in 5G networks
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