An architecture for threats detection in mobile operators networks

The growing of mobile communication market is attracting the prospects of “cyber-criminals” to eavesdrop personal and financial data through mobile devices. Typically, such devices do not have enough hardware resources to provide a secure environment against phishing attacks, spywares, malwares, identity theft and so on. In this paper, we propose a Telco architecture designed to prevent some mobile attacks that will allow network operators to counteract threats and thus to increase the trust of mobile users. An innovative aspects of this proposal regards the architectural solution wherein some legacy nodes and some IP-based network elements contribute to the network and users security in a cooperative way.