ETSI releases security standards for distributed systems

The distributed, cloud-based technological environment required by 5G and IoT will present a novel set of security challenges.
In anticipation of this the ETSI (European Telecommunications Standards Institute) technical committee on cybersecurity has released two specifications focused on attribute-based encryption (ABE). This seems to be a more flexible, tailored, bespoke form of encryption that can be applied to specific scenarios.
Here’s the ETSI explanation: “ABE is an asymmetric