the Invisible Backbone: Securing Optical Transport Networks Against Hidden Layer 0/1 Threats in Terabit Era: Zero Trust, OTN/DWDM Security, AI-Native Detection, and Quantum-Safe Encryption

The next major cyber breach won't start at the endpoint. It will begin inside the optical path.Modern cybersecurity is architected around visible digital surfaces-endpoints, cloud workloads, and APIs-while leaving the physical and photonic substrate that carries this traffic dangerously unmonitored. In the 800G and 1.6T era, a single fiber pair aggregates the data of entire national economies, making the Optical Transport Network (OTN) a high-value target for sophisticated state-sponsored and criminal adversaries.The Invisible Backbone introduces the formal discipline of Optical Transport Security and Resilience, dismantling the illusion that "dark fiber" is inherently secure because it is buried or passive. This book exposes the "Green Dashboard Fallacy"-the reality that traditional metrics like OSNR and BER can remain stable while a link is being actively tapped, manipulated, or exfiltrated.Inside this architectural blueprint, you will discover: - The Expanded Threat Taxonomy: A deep dive into stealthy macro/micro-bending taps, alien wavelength injection, ROADM manipulation, and control-plane exploits that bypass traditional firewalls.- Zero Trust at Layer 0: How to extend the Zero Trust framework below the IP layer to ensure no fiber span, wavelength, or management channel is implicitly trusted.- AI-Native Defense: Implementing the Observe-Analyze-Act framework. Learn how to turn fiber into a high-resolution sensor using State of Polarization (SOP) telemetry and unsupervised machine learning (DBSCAN/xLSTM) to detect sub-millisecond intrusions.- Quantum-Safe Transport: Strategies to combat the "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" threat using wire-speed AES-256-GCM, Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), and Quantum Key Distribution (QKD).- Vendor-Specific Security: Practical configuration workflows and implementation patterns for Tier-1 platforms from Huawei, Nokia, and Ciena.Written for telecom engineers, NOC/SOC managers, CISOs, and infrastructure policymakers, this book proves that the future of cybersecurity must go below the surface to secure the glass backbone of the digital economy.Stop trusting the signal. Start verifying the path.

Pagina's: 353, Paperback, Independently published