Telco Operator shortcomings

Availability / Performance of Network and Network Elements
Regulatory and audit requirements compliance (ISO 8583 / PCI)
Optimize CAPEX and OPEX
Fraud prevention
Revenue leakage
DNS Cache Poisoning prevention
DDOS attack on the network – “heap dump” on network elements and saturated the bandwidth
Customer usages behaviour for marketing research
Lack of situational awareness of networks
  • Availability / Performance of Network and Network Elements
  • Regulatory and audit requirements compliance (ISO 8583 / PCI)
  • Optimize CAPEX and OPEX
  • Fraud prevention
  • Revenue leakage
  • DNS Cache Poisoning prevention
  • DDOS attack on the network – “heap dump” on network elements and saturated the bandwidth
  • Customer usages behaviour for marketing research
  • Lack of situational awareness of networks

Security Checklist for Telco Network

  1. Clear domain concept to minimize security risks
  2. Security Compliance and Audit Compliance (ISO 8583 / PCI)
  3. Ensure access to theTelco network over a reliable and extendable authentication & authorization framework (VPN/ IPSEC).
  4. Secure Service Delivery, Transaction, Settlement, Forex OAM (OSS) and Billing (BSS) domains
  5. Secure DNS to prevent cache poisoning
  6. Secure Web Services
  7. Security Operation Center (SOC) compliment NOC to have a full situational awareness to prevent fraud and fast respond to threat