I’d hate to alarm you…

… but I will because I’m alarmed. 🙂

The advent of network virtualisation, cloud-scaling and API / microservice-centric OSS means that the security attack surface changes significantly compared with old-style solutions. We now have to consider a more diverse application stack, often where parts of the stack are outside our control because they’re As A Service (XaaS) offerings from other suppliers. Even a DevOps implementation approach can introduce vulnerabilities.

With these new approaches, service providers are tending to take on more of the development / integration effort internally. This means that service providers can no longer rely so heavily on their vendors / integrators to ensure that their OSS solutions are hardened. Security definitely takes a much bigger step up in the list of requirements / priorities / challenges on a modern OSS implementation.

This article from Aricent provides a few insights on the security implications of a modern API architecture.

* Please note that I am not endorsing Aricent products here as I have never used them, but they do provide some thought-provoking ideas for those tasked with securing their OSS.

If this article was helpful, subscribe to the Passionate About OSS Blog to get each new post sent directly to your inbox. 100% free of charge and free of spam.

Our Solutions

Share:

Most Recent Articles

No telco wants to buy an OSS/BSS

When you’re a senior exec in a telco and you’ve been made responsible for allocating resources, it’s unlikely that you ever think, “gee, we really

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.