Section: 15 Management security for network slices 15.1 General
Content: The creation, modification, and termination of a Network Slice Instance (NSI) is part of the Management Services provided by the 5G management systems. A management service is accessed by management service consumers via standardized service interfaces given in 3GPP TS 28.533[ Management and orchestration; Architecture framework ]  [54]. The typical service consumers for the above NSI provisioning and NSI provisioning exposure are operators and vertical industry respecitively, as described in 3GPP TS 28.531[ Management and orchestration; Provisioning ]  [55]. These management services are securely protected through mutual authentication and authorization below.