Best Firewall Software

AdaptiveMobile’s SMS firewall, a messaging security application, ensures the protection of network from the latest messaging security threats, in SMS, email, MMS, or IP messaging. This firewall offers messaging protection platform, which makes use of in-network controls, subscriber reputation, and advanced threat detection algorithms to identify and block spammers. Furthermore, it provides advanced features, such as sophisticated threat discovery, real-time reputation and traffic analysis, security policy structure, and analytics.

PSTN is a legacy network used by telecom operators for wired communications globally, as SS7 network is the backbone of the PSTN network. The company also offers SS7 firewall to protect the operator’s network from hackers, adversaries, and fraudsters. The SS7 firewall identifies anomalous behaviors in network traffic to protect the subscribers as well as the operators from malicious attacks. Additionally, this firewall constitutes of hardware and software features to perform real-time SS7 session tracking and signaling traffic inspection. In line with SMS firewall, AMD Telecom offers A2P monetization application, which helps MNOs and MVNOs to provide effective control over the network traffic and generate revenues from unprofitable A2P SMS services.

Anam’s Signaling Firewall protects mobile networks from attacks arriving over signaling network. The signaling network is inclusive of SS7 and diameter network. This firewall makes use of Anam’s analytics technology to analyze signaling traffic and identify existing attacks in a given network. Additionally, it offers Saifcell, a threat information sharing system for operators to share SS7 and DIAMETER threat information in near real-time. Furthermore, the company provides its managed services for fundamental tasks, such as installation, configuration, performance, and network monitoring. It also offers a signaling firewall to protect and manage SS7 and the diameter network from fraudsters and criminal activities.

The SMS defense solution is used to detect and protect illegitimate SMS traffic and help MNOs to provide detailed analysis of messages in the form of graphs, call detail records, and comprehensive spreadsheet reports. Additionally, it offers real-time alerts, powerful rules engine, and complete protection for the roaming subscribers. SMS DEFENCE is highly scalable for mobile operators to manage heavy traffic and protects mobile networks from spoofing, phishing, and virus attacks. Cellusys’ strength lies in maintaining a proactive and systematic threat monitoring and management to determine and eradicate security problems. In addition, the company also delivers SMS PARENTAL CONTROL, which prevents children from watching unwanted mobile content. Cellusys’ SMS HOME ROUTER solution caters to SS7, which helps to protect mobile networks security issues and ensures privacy for mobile users.

This firewall is further classified into SS7 and diameter firewall to protect respective networks from fraudulent attacks and privacy breaches across the full range of signaling threats. In line with signaling firewall, the company also offers A2P protection used to block unsolicited messages, SMS frauds, and spams. This A2P messaging solution helps the mobile operators to identify the grey routes and traffic by analyzing the message contents and volumes originating from different networks. Furthermore, with the cooperation of signaling providers, the company provides a wide array of roaming, fraud, and security applications for mobile operators.

Netnumber is instrumental in offering diverse solutions, such as communication services, interconnect, fraud and security solutions, private LTE networks, and IoT/M2M solutions, to its commercial clientele. NetNumber offers signaling solutions by integrating various applications on its TITAN platform. The applications are available in the market with different deployment modes, such as virtualized, NFV-compliant, Cloud Native, and on COTS hardware, thereby providing optimal deployment flexibility.

The firewall solution is designed to assist operators to enhance operational efficiency, network quality, service quality, customer experience, and revenue, and reduce operational cost. Along with SMS Firewall, the company also provides signaling firewalls to protect the mobile operators and CSPs from signaling attacks. Symsoft has segmented its signaling firewall solutions into SS7 and diameter firewalls, which offer carrier-grade availability, flexible filter configurations, and powerful real-time filtering to ensure continuous protection against network attacks. Symsoft Diameter Firewall provides stateful analysis, flexible filtering framework, and in-house developed diameter stack to detect, protect, and prevent malicious traffic in the operators’ LTE networks.