Summary
The Open Radio Access Network framework (O-RAN) is enabling open marketplaces where extensible radio-control applications (“xApps”) powered by artificial intelligence can be shared and deployed across multi-vendor cellular networks. Although this openness accelerates innovation, it also opens the door to security vulnerability. Indeed, malicious developers could hide software “backdoors” that silently degrade or manipulate the performance of competing networks. Currently, no testbed or certification pipeline verifies the security of these AI-driven applications before they enter the marketplac
