Presentation Title: Telecom Infrastructure Security: the SS7 protocols
Presentation Abstract:

Telecommunications networks are a critical part of any national infrastructure. The SS7 signalling network is the backbone that enables all digital communications and as such is the most sensitive part of the system. This presentation will introduce the suite of SS7 protocols, study their security model and review the resulting threats and potential countermeasures. A demonstration on the experimental 7bone.net testbed will present several tools from the SecuritySuite7 used to analyze SS7 networks security.

About Philippe

Philippe is an entrepreneur and security researcher. He is currently advisor to Netvibes and Global partner at Telecom Security Task Force. In 1999, he founded Qualys, world-leading vulnerability-assessment service delivered as an application service provider. He founded computer and network security company Intrinsec in 1995 and founded Worldnet, France’s first public Internet service provider, in 1993. He was also lead designer for Payline, the first French e-commerce payment gateway. He wrote and translated security books and has been giving speeches on network security since 1995.