Security for Telecommunications Networks

• Main Authors: Traynor, Patrick (Author), McDaniel, Patrick (Author), Porta, Thomas La (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2008.
• Series: Advances in Information Security, 40
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer organization.; Computer communication systems.; Computer security.; Data structures (Computer science).; Data encryption (Computer science).; Computer Science.; Systems and Data Security.; Computer Communication Networks.; Data Encryption.; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory.; Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks.

Telecommunications networks are a critical component of the economic and social infrastructures in which we live. Each day, well over three billion people across the globe rely upon these systems, as their primary means of connecting to the world around them. Given the significant focus on securing...

Table of Contents:

• Network Architecture
• Security
• Cellular Architecture
• Vulnerability Analysis
• Vulnerabilities in the Telephony
• Vulnerabilities in the Short Messaging Service (SMS)
• Vulnerabilities in Cellular Data Networks
• Vulnerabilities in Voice over IP
• Future Analyses
• Future Directions and Challenges.