Protecting a nation’s life support system

Protecting a country’s most essential public and private sector services against wide-ranging threats and hazards forms an integral part of national security measures. It is arguably the first responsibility of

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Surveillance technology: Privacy vs. protection

Covert surveillance technology such as IMSI-catchers has long been at the epicentre of debates around privacy against protection. As the world becomes less predictable and the terror landscape evolves, the

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Data optimisation for cellular IoT: Part 2

In the part one of the blog Martin Varga of Anritsu Europe said that The Internet of Things is not just about new application and services: it embraces the whole technological

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The rise and rise of the e-SIM

Global eSIM appears set to make a major impact in consumer and IoT/M2M markets. eSIMs enable multiple mobile operators’ profiles to be generated, securely downloaded and provisioned over the air,

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IMSI catchers: Invasion of privacy or an integral tool for security and prison management?

In February 2017 amendments to the Prison and Courts Bill authorised interference with wireless telephony in prisons. The updated bill allows the Justice Secretary to order networks to deploy IMSI

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Real protection for the SS7 network

A recent article from security firm Positive Technologies has claimed the end-to-end encryption recently introduced by a number of chat apps such as WhatsApp, Telegram or Viber may actually be pointless.

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