AI Network Competition Shifts to Security and Resilience in the AI Era

According to AI TIMES, Huawei and related industry players said on October 15 that the core competitiveness of communications networks in the AI era is shifting from speed to security and resilience. At an event held from the 12th to the 13th, Huawei put front and center a message that telecom operators should hurry to build IP networks that embed security from the design stage and can maintain and restore services after failures or breaches. The backdrop is the view that AI is expanding the scale and speed of attacks, shaking existing defense systems. On top of that, concerns have emerged that future decryption risks from quantum computing are also raising the importance of preemptive structural change over post-incident response. Related groups unveiled a joint initiative to build safe and highly resilient networks together, and called on global telecom operators to participate. The discussion makes clear that if AI is to be developed not just as a way to improve network operating efficiency but as a foundation for monetization, the infrastructure itself must change so it can withstand attacks and outages.