Protect your MMSC against viruses and DDoS attacks

Mobile phone viruses are spreading, often via MMS and Bluetooth. Subscribers may protect themselves by turning off Bluetooth when not used or not accepting connections from unknown devices. On the other hand, viruses spreading via MMS pose a great threat to security, reliability and brand value to the operator.

The problem

• It's somewhat hard for a cellphone user to notice that the phone is infected.
• If the MMSC is not secure enough, it may be actually helping the virus spread.
• Subscribers may be charged for MMS messages sent by the virus trying to spread itself.
• Mobile phone viruses are often time-bombs, activating on predefined time in future, usually in prime-time when MMS traffic is highest.
• Hundreds or thousands of subscribers simultaneously trying to send malicious content to MMSC causes a distributed denial of service attack; preventing normal MMS traffic by causing unexpected system loads.
• Revenue will be lost if the MMSC fails to gracefully handle the unexpected load.

How do we fix it?

MMSC Armor provides complete protection: filters out any malicious content before it reaches the MMSC, no matter where it may come from. It analyzes message contents and either blocks the message or removes malicious content and lets the message through.

Features

• MM1, MM4 and MM7 filtering.
• Extensive reporting to meet tel-co requirements.
• Trigger support to notify the subscriber that his cellphone is infected.
• Can send an application to the subscriber to remove the virus from his cellphone.
• Tools to manage virus database.
• Automatic virus database updates.

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