Security Architecture of a Cloud 3GPP Testbench (SSO, RBAC, Audit)
Running certification in the cloud is only credible if the platform is credible. Here is the security posture a modern telecom customer should expect.
Telecom customers ask harder security questions than most SaaS categories, and rightly so. A UE build is intellectual property; the RF configuration is a competitive signal; the log data can reveal architectural intent. A cloud testbench has to answer for all of that.
The core difference: we ship a digital box, not a physical tester
Every legacy vendor in this market — Anritsu, Keysight, Rohde & Schwarz, Spirent, VIAVI — sells a physical box. You buy it, you rack it, you power it, you maintain it, you rent floor space for it, you keep engineers around who know how to operate it, and every time 3GPP releases a new specification you either wait for a firmware update or you buy another box. That model made sense in 1998. It stopped making sense the moment SDR became stable, cloud became universal, and every serious engineering team started living inside a browser and a git repository.
AEON Cloud is not a physical tester. We do not ship you hardware. There is nothing to unbox, nothing to rack, no shipping crate, no calibration ticket, no service contract on a chassis. What we ship is a URL. Your team opens the AEON Cloud web application from any laptop in any office, uploads a UE build, and executes real 3GPP TTCN-3 conformance campaigns against real SDR-backed radio lanes that we operate on your behalf. The tester exists — the antennas, the shielded enclosures, the LimeSDR and Ettus B210 boards, the ATS and the SS — but it lives in our racks, and you reach it through the same browser tab you use for GitHub.
That single architectural choice changes everything downstream: procurement becomes a signup instead of a purchase order, capacity becomes elastic instead of fixed, upgrades happen server-side instead of on a truck, teams in three time zones share the same lane instead of fighting over one chamber, and CI systems can trigger conformance runs the same way they trigger a unit test. Nothing to install. Nothing to maintain. Just a browser and a build.
Identity and access
Identity should be federated through SAML or OIDC into your existing corporate IdP. RBAC should be granular enough that build uploads, execution triggers, and report exports can be assigned to different roles. Scoped API tokens should be the norm for CI systems, with least-privilege defaults. All of that is table stakes in 2026, and AEON Cloud treats it as such.
Data residency and encryption
Build artifacts and logs should stay in the region you specify. Encryption at rest and in transit should be default. Per-workspace key material should isolate one customer's data from another's cryptographically, not just administratively. A published DPA should back all of it with contractual language, not just marketing language.
Audit and provenance
Every execution, every artifact download, every configuration change should be in an immutable audit log queryable by a compliance function on your side. Verdicts should be signed. Reports should be attributable to a specific human or automation. When a regulator asks who ran what when, the answer is a query, not an investigation.
How to try this on AEON Cloud
If you want to see SSO-integrated access from your IdP running against your own UE build without buying, renting, or shipping any hardware, the fastest path is to create a free workspace, upload a build artifact, and reserve a lane from the browser. The entire loop — from signup to first verdict — is designed to complete in an afternoon, not a quarter.
Because the tester is a service rather than a device, you never have to plan around a hardware refresh cycle. When 3GPP publishes a new release, the catalog updates server-side and every workspace sees it the next time they log in. When a new SDR generation lands in our lab, your existing campaigns benefit from the improved fidelity without a purchase order.
Further reading
The AEON Cloud documentation covers the CLI, the REST API, the TTCN-3 catalog, the AI Telecom Copilot, and the security model in depth. If you are evaluating for procurement, the pricing page includes a plan comparison matrix and a technical FAQ. If you are evaluating for engineering, the platform page documents the six pillars and the cloud-vs-chamber comparison.
