Securing softswitches from malicious attacks

Opie, Jake Weyman

Title: Securing softswitches from malicious attacks
Creator: Opie, Jake Weyman
Subject: Internet telephony -- Security measures
Subject: Computer networks -- Security measures
Subject: Digital telephone systems
Subject: Communication -- Technological innovations
Subject: Computer network protocols
Subject: TCP/IP (Computer network protocol)
Subject: Switching theory
Date Issued: 2007
Date: 2007
Type: Thesis
Type: Masters
Type: MSc
Identifier: vital:4683
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007714
Identifier: Internet telephony -- Security measures
Identifier: Computer networks -- Security measures
Identifier: Digital telephone systems
Identifier: Communication -- Technological innovations
Identifier: Computer network protocols
Identifier: TCP/IP (Computer network protocol)
Identifier: Switching theory
Description: Traditionally, real-time communication, such as voice calls, has run on separate, closed networks. Of all the limitations that these networks had, the ability of malicious attacks to cripple communication was not a crucial one. This situation has changed radically now that real-time communication and data have merged to share the same network. The objective of this project is to investigate the securing of softswitches with functionality similar to Private Branch Exchanges (PBX) from malicious attacks. The focus of the project will be a practical investigation of how to secure ILANGA, an ASTERISK-based system under development at Rhodes University. The practical investigation that focuses on ILANGA is based on performing six varied experiments on the different components of ILANGA. Before the six experiments are performed, basic preliminary security measures and the restrictions placed on the access to the database are discussed. The outcomes of these experiments are discussed and the precise reasons why these attacks were either successful or unsuccessful are given. Suggestions of a theoretical nature on how to defend against the successful attacks are also presented.
Format: 151 p.
Format: pdf
Publisher: Rhodes University
Publisher: Faculty of Science, Computer Science
Language: English
Rights: Opie, Jake Weyman

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