As a result of growing attacks on their network and signaling infrastructure Service Providers now need to select high performance security solutions. Strategy Analytics has prepared a white paper sponsored by NetNumber to compare the competitive position of its Signaling Firewall Solutions versus selected competitors.

Signaling security protection e.g. in the case of a DDoS attack on network nodes, requires ‘in line’ core monitoring and analysis, combined with capabilities for uninterruptible processing of vast numbers of transactions in near real time. As Edge Services and 5G are deployed very low latency between local, regional or even global processing nodes is increasingly necessary.

Competing solutions from four vendors are compared in terms of the key criteria; and the templates developed for this analysis can also be applied to alternative solutions.

Note: the analysis is based on published sources and is subject to modification.

• Overview
• Background – Escalation of emerging threats on the Signaling Network
• New Approaches required to address increasing Signaling Security Threats
• Analysis Criteria and Highlights

1. Architecture & Design Approach
2. Methodology for Security and Threat Detection
3. Performance - Real Time /Distributed Network-wide Signal & low Latency Threat Detection
4. Multiprotocol Signaling and Active GSMA Use Categories
5. Operational and Administrative Support Tools
6. Automated data feeds for provisioning firewall rules
7. Industry Leadership and Focus

• Conclusions

• List of Tables

• Summary Results By Vendor
• Appendix I. Detailed Vendor Comparison