Breaking cybersecurity news, news analysis, commentary, and other content from around the world, with an initial focus on the Middle East & Africa and the Asia Pacific EU Gets a Head Start in Developing 6G Network Security "Shield-6G" will combine AI threat detection, digital twins, honeypots, and more, to help carriers protect 6G networks against the threats of tomorrow. European academics and researchers are already working on securing 6G communications in anticipation of a widening attack surface, increased interconnectivity, and classic nation-state threats. Did you know that 6G is already a thing? Word on the street is that it might get rolled out globally around 2030. In anticipation of that near future, 19 organizations have signed onto the "Shield-6G" project — a European Union (EU)-funded venture to develop 6G cybersecurity. The ultimate goal is to develop a cyber threat intelligence platform across network operators, securing the future of mobile communications by the time it arrives. "6G is way more complex than 5G, because it manages more devices, and there's more automation, and with automation there come problems," says Bart Siniarski, director at MBP Network Technology, a Shield-6G member organization. "The attack surface will be extended by a couple of magnitudes. So when we step into 6G — which is, to me, 5G on AI steroids — there are going to be problems at the beginning. And then over time [the goal is that] we are comfortable using 6G in critical infrastructure like hospitals or factories or maybe in shipping and militaries." What's Going to Change with 6G Siniarksi points to the Internet of Things (IoT) and industrial IT as drivers for this next generation of wireless networking. "There's going to be a huge number of interconnected devices [in the near future] — like cars that need to talk to each