Telecom security firm SecurityGen provides security to operators in sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia and the Middle East. Wireless Watch sat down with SecurityGen CTO Dmitry Kurbatov and CEO Amit Nath, to discuss the global telecoms security space and the unusual behavior of hackers of late. While 5G is inherently more secure than earlier generations, certain applications, like Internet of Things (IoT) and multi access edge computing (MEC), will create more opportunities for attackers to access the network. In particular, the virtualization and cloudification of radio access network infrastructure exposes telcos to bad actors. But constrained capital expenditures and operating expenses mean that operators are more concerned with building and maintaining their infrastructure than predicting the security threats that could upend them.…