Security-by-Design at the Telco Edge with OSS: Challenges and Lessons Learned

This paper presents our experience, in the context of an industrial R&D project, on securing GENIO, a platform for edge computing on Passive Optical Network (PON) infrastructures, and based on Open-Source Software (OSS). We identify threats and related mitigations through hardening, vulnerability management, digital signatures, and static and dynamic analysis. In particular, we report lessons learned in applying these mitigations using OSS, and share our findings about the maturity and limitations of these security solutions in an industrial context.

@article{cesarano2025_2505.00111,
  title={ Security-by-Design at the Telco Edge with OSS: Challenges and Lessons Learned },
  author={ Carmine Cesarano and Alessio Foggia and Gianluca Roscigno and Luca Andreani and Roberto Natella },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.00111},
  year={ 2025 }
}