# Threat Model Thursday: 5G Infrastructure

DevFeed: [Threat Model Thursday: 5G Infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/threat-model-thursday-5g-infrastructure-37066.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://shostack.org/blog/tmt-5g-infra/>)

Author: Adam

Published: 2021-07-01T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Shostack & Friends Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/shostack-friends-blog.md>)

Topics: [5G](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/5g.md>), [Cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cybersecurity.md>), [Threat Research](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/threat-research.md>), [Architecture & Design](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/architecture-design.md>)

Tags: [5g](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/5g.md>), [architecture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/architecture.md>), [cybersecurity](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cybersecurity.md>), [government](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/government.md>), [networks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/networks.md>), [policy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/policy.md>), [report](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/report.md>), [supply-chain](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/supply-chain.md>)

## AI overview

The article examines a US government report on potential threat vectors to 5G infrastructure. It discusses the report's authorship, its organization around policy and standards, supply chain, and systems architecture, and questions what systems and components fall within scope.

## Source excerpt

The US Government's lead cybersecurity agencies have released an interesting report, and I wanted to use this for a Threat Model Thursday, where we take a respectful look at threat modeling work products to see what we can learn.