Security for Telecommunications Networks

By: Patrick McDaniel, Thomas La Porta, Patrick Traynor

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Hardcover | 7 July 2008

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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 critical infrastructure in recent years, Security for Telecommunications Networks creates a starting place for new researchers in the field of secure telecommunications networks. This volume not only discusses emerging threats, along with system vulnerability, but also presents the open questions posited by network evolution and defense mechanisms. This is one of the first books to discuss securing current and next generation telecommunications networks by the security community.

Security for Telecommunications Networks is designed for a professional audience composed of practitioners and researchers in industry. This book is also suitable as a secondary text book or reference for advanced-level students in computer science and electrical engineering.

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"In this book, Traynor et al. reveal some of the vulnerabilities of mobile telephony, and briefly show its foundations in a clear and didactic way. Although average readers could easily understand the initial chapters, readers literate in computers and networks are the intended audience of the book. ... this is a very interesting book, full of valuable content. I would recommend it to everyone interested in the secrets of cellular telephony." (Agusti Solanas, ACM Computing Reviews, January, 2009)

"This book identifies network security problems and vulnerabilities, their underlying causes, and some of their consequences and solutions. ... It addresses the security concerns in cellular networks, which seem to be the most rapidly growing segment of communications throughout the world, especially in fast-growing countries such as Brazil, Russia, India, and China. ... The book will be useful to network engineers, analysts, designers, and researchers interested in investigating cellular network security issues in detail." (Satya Prakash Saraswat, ACM Computing Reviews, October, 2008)

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Introduction	p. 1
Telecommunications Networks	p. 2
Network Convergence and Security	p. 3
Outline of this Book	p. 4
Audience	p. 5
Other Sources of Information	p. 6
Network Architecture
Security	p. 9
Overview	p. 9
What is security?	p. 9
Basic Terminology	p. 10
Attacks	p. 11
Trust	p. 11
Services and Tools	p. 12
Cryptography	p. 12
Authentication and Authorization	p. 15
Certificates and PKI	p. 16
Network Security	p. 16
IPsec	p. 16
SSL/TLS	p. 18
Firewalls	p. 19
Intrusion and Anomaly Detection	p. 20
Summary	p. 22
Cellular Architecture	p. 23
History of Cellular Telephony	p. 24
Cellular Voice Networks	p. 26
Voice Network Elements	p. 26
Home Location Register	p. 27
Mobile Switching Center/Visiting Location Register	p. 29
Base Station Subsystem	p. 29
Cellular Data Networks	p. 30
Data Network Elements	p. 30
Gateway GPRS Support Node	p. 31
Serving GPRS Support Node	p. 32
Signaling Network and Protocols	p. 33
Common Channel Signaling Network	p. 34
Message Transfer Part	p. 34
Signaling Connection Control Part	p. 35
Transaction Capabilities Application Part	p. 36
Mobile Application Part	p. 36
ISDN User Part	p. 36
Wireless Network	p. 36
Wireless Access Techniques	p. 37
Frequency Issues	p. 39
Voice Encoding	p. 43
Summary of Procedures	p. 45
Registration and Call Setup Procedures	p. 46
Core Network Security	p. 48
Air Interface Security	p. 49
Summary	p. 51
Vulnerability Analysis
Vulnerabilities in the Telephony	p. 55
Weak Cryptographic Algorithms	p. 55
Vulnerabilities in the Network Core	p. 58
Wireless Eavesdropping	p. 60
Jamming	p. 61
Use Tracking and Privacy	p. 62
Overload	p. 62
Malware	p. 63
Vulnerabilities in the Short Messaging Service (SMS)	p. 65
History and Description	p. 66
Delivering Messages	p. 66
Submitting a Message	p. 66
Routing a Message	p. 67
Wireless Delivery	p. 68
Identifying System Bottlenecks	p. 69
Queue Management	p. 70
Message Injection	p. 71
Efficient Device Targeting	p. 72
NPA/NXX	p. 73
Web Scraping	p. 73
Testing Phone "Liveness"	p. 74
Additional Collection Methods	p. 75
Modeling Denial of Service	p. 76
Attacking Individuals	p. 76
Metropolitan Area Service	p. 77
Regional Service	p. 81
Network Characterization	p. 82
Attack Characterization	p. 85
Current Solutions	p. 87
Queue Management	p. 89
Weighted Fair Queuing	p. 89
Weighted Random Early Detection	p. 92
Summary	p. 96
Resource Provisioning	p. 96
Strict Resource Provisioning	p. 97
Dynamic Resource Provisioning	p. 100
Direct Channel Allocation	p. 102
Summary	p. 105
Combining Mechanisms	p. 105
Summary	p. 107
Vulnerabilities in Cellular Data Networks	p. 109
History and Description	p. 110
Delivering Packets from the Internet	p. 111
Device Registration	p. 111
Submitting Packets	p. 112
Routing Packets	p. 112
Wireless Delivery	p. 113
Packet Multiplexing	p. 115
Exploiting Cellular Data Services	p. 116
Determining Network Settings	p. 116
Exploiting Teardown Mechanisms	p. 117
Exploiting Setup Mechanisms	p. 121
Conflicts in Network Design	p. 124
Efficient Mitigation of Data Network Vulnerabilities	p. 129
Summary	p. 130
Vulnerabilities in Voice over IP	p. 133
History and Description	p. 134
Session Initiation Protocol	p. 135
Architecture	p. 135
SIP Messages	p. 136
Making Phone Calls	p. 139
IP-Multimedia Subsystem Network	p. 140
IMS Architecture	p. 140
Making Phone Calls	p. 141
IMS Versus Pure Internet Telephony	p. 141
Wireless Issues	p. 142
Security Issues	p. 144
Current Solutions	p. 145
Analysis of Emerging Vulnerabilities	p. 148
Building Secure IP Telephony Networks	p. 152
Summary	p. 153
Future Analyses
Future Directions and Challenges	p. 157
Denial of Service Attacks	p. 157
Logical vs Flooding Attacks	p. 157
Problems in "Controlled" Networks	p. 158
End-To-End Arguments and Security	p. 159
The Future of Rigid Systems	p. 160
Moving Forward	p. 161
Glossary	p. 163
References	p. 167
Index	p. 179
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