Industry Should Adopt Best Practices to Protect SS7, FCC Says

The Public Safety Bureau Thursday encouraged service providers to implement Signaling System 7 security countermeasures recommended by the FCC’s Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council. “SS7 supports fixed and mobile service providers in processing and routing calls and text messages between networks, enabling fixed and mobile networks to connect, and providing call session information such as Caller ID and billing data for circuit switched infrastructure,” said a public notice. “Over the last several years, numerous research findings and media reports call attention to security vulnerabilities present within SS7 networks.”