Overview
- First book to discuss securing current and next generation telecommunications networks by the security community
- Telecommunications networks are part of national critical infrastructure – one of the few systems not previously subject to external security scrutiny and review
Part of the book series: Advances in Information Security (ADIS, volume 40)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Introduction
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Network Architecture
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Vulnerability Analysis
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Future Analyses
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About this book
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.
Reviews
From the reviews:
"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)
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Security for Telecommunications Networks
Authors: Patrick Traynor, Patrick McDaniel, Thomas La Porta
Series Title: Advances in Information Security
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72442-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-72441-6Published: 07 July 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4438-2Published: 23 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-72442-3Published: 12 July 2008
Series ISSN: 1568-2633
Series E-ISSN: 2512-2193
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 182
Topics: Systems and Data Security, Computer Communication Networks, Cryptology, Data Structures and Information Theory, Computer Systems Organization and Communication Networks