New FCC proposal requires cybersecurity plans for use of 5G spectrum

The Federal Communications Commission today proposed a new service rule requiring companies planning to use the expanded “fifth generation” of the wireless communications system to submit cybersecurity plans, the latest move by the commission on regulating cybersecurity that affects the growing Internet of Things and connected machines.

In a Federal Register notice issued today, the commission proposed new rules for 5G adding “performance requirements for innovative uses such as Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine communications.”

Meeting the requirements...