Use Case 2 Telecommunications

Secure Identity and Access Management for Telecom Networks

Telecommunications
5G telecommunications network infrastructure
Partner Organization

Orange Romania (ORO) is Romania's largest telecommunications provider and part of the international Orange Group. ORO serves over 11 million B2B and B2C customers and operates state-of-the-art 5G mobile networks with commercial coverage in 38 cities across Romania.

RECITALS Objectives
  • Test and validate federated, trusted Identity Access Management capability
  • Improve resilience and security of DevOps/DevSecOps processes against insider threats
  • Leverage Threat Intelligence to enhance Security and Network Operations
  • Validate platform through insider threat scenarios on production networks
Challenge Areas

5G Network Complexity

5G networks are decentralized and virtualized, creating numerous new access points. This exponentially increases the attack surface, requiring more operational staff and sophisticated anomaly detection to establish and maintain security baselines for normal operations.

Dynamic DevOps Environment

Policy-based IAM solutions cannot keep pace with the highly dynamic DevSecOps/DevOps environment. Frequent infrastructure changes, team reconfigurations, and evolving privileged access requirements demand adaptive identity management solutions.

RECITALS Solution

Enhanced digital identity solution supporting dynamic DevOps/DevSecOps lifecycles with privacy-preserving identity and access management. The platform enables:

  • Clearly assigned roles and access privileges for secure operational environments
  • Mitigation actions against insider threats from privileged users
  • Threat Intelligence integration through iSHARE Trust Data Space and EU-CIP Knowledge Hub
  • Authentication abuse and replay attack detection via Security Manager
  • Remediation, response orchestration, and non-repudiation for SOC teams
Measurable Goals
  1. 25% IAM adoption for administrative workflows accessing Core 5G Infrastructure
  2. 20% increase in cyberthreat detection and mitigation accuracy
  3. 20% increase in threat data volume shared to EU Data Spaces
Collaborating Partners: NKUA, TUD, UPC, PDM, LUH, TCD