On one hand, networks are becoming increasingly interconnected, offering the same kind of seamless and personalized services and, to some extent, sharing the same infrastructure. On the other hand, terminals are evolving from special purpose hardware devices to network appliances with operating systems and software application which behave as an active element in the network architecture and can be connected to different networks.
All this is opening the telecom networks, making them vulnerable to e-mail-born threats that may result in network disruption and fraud, malicious misrepresentations of user’s identity and handsets harm.
AerVox SMS Firewall helps MNOs to effectively protect the network from SMS misusage, monetize SMS traffic (m-commerce, advertizing, etc.), and avoid churn and subscribers’ dissatisfaction because of a bad SMS experience.
Specifically designed for wireless operators, AerVox’s SMS Firewall allows MNOs to take preventive and reactive measures against potentially dangerous messaging, by delivering real-time protection at the edge of their network for both inbound and outbound traffic.
Key Benefits
Helps MNOs to be protected from network abuse:
 Helps to reduce network costs relieving the network from unwanted and non profitable messaging traffic.
Helps to reduce network costs by reducing the risk of network malfunction due to dangerous traffic.
Helps to increase income ensuring chargeable traffic will not be lost because of network resources unavailability.
Helps MNOs to reduce churn, and to promote end-user loyalty through:
Network availability improvement.
Terminal protection.
Privacy safeguards.
Threat-free SMS experience.
The SMS Firewall provides a complete protection against a wide variety of content layer and network layer threats. Whereas content-protection shields subscribers from abuses such as denial-of-service attacks, flooding and unsolicited contents, network-protection secures the operators from fake and spoof fraud scenarios as identified by the GSMA’s IR.70, IR.71 and AA.50 SMS SS7 Fraud documents.
The solution offers an environment to help MNOs detecting situations where unauthorized/malicious SMS traffic takes place, and deploying the right protection to fight each of these situations.
Main Features
Adaptive Protection to any SMS Threat Paths:
“Off-net” (i.e. originating on another carrier’s network).
“On-net” MO and MT (i.e. originating on a carrier’s own network) protection.
Adaptive Protection to any SMS Threat Layers:
Network layer threats.
Content layer threats.
Flexible network integration:
Support for different interfaces (SS7, SIGTRAN, SMPP, etc.) - network protocol transparency trough message format unification.
Support for different behaviors: Monitoring mode (detect security breaches without performing any SMS traffic blockage), Interception mode (detect security breaches and actively block undesirable SMS traffic).
Flexible Framework:
Brings a significant time-reduction to develop and deploy any new protection to fight a concrete pre-defined threat.
Allows many Applications to be developed and deployed to simultaneously provide service.
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