Published on July 11th, 2022 | by Kevin McTiernan
Cell site simulators (CSS) are an important tool used by law enforcement around the world to track down fugitives, find missing persons and to investigate or prevent serious crimes. In the fifth generation of mobile (5G), changes have been made…
Published on June 22nd, 2022 | by Baski Mohan
Communication service provider (CSP) networks are becoming more dynamically defined and more distributed, particularly as 5G networks and the internet of things (IoT) are further integrated. Many workloads are executed at the network edge by cloud-native, virtualized network functions. This…
Published on May 10th, 2022 | by Kevin McTiernan & Kevin Metcalf
Child abduction and trafficking is one of the most shocking crimes against society. Every parent has unfortunately had to consider the potential for their child to be a victim of deception and exploitation, but today that reality is accentuated by…
Published on April 27th, 2022 | by Michael Gebretsadik
In general, 5G networks make gathering intelligence from digital communications more difficult due to factors such as encryption, increased traffic, and more diverse types of data. However, location-based services are a notable exception. The 5G Location Management Function (LMF) enables…
Published on April 12th, 2022 | by Jamie Barton, Jeff Bland & Robert Reisig
Technical support is critical to the lawful intelligence mission, for both the mediation systems operated by communication service providers (CSPs) and the analytics and investigation platforms used by law enforcement agencies (LEAs). CSPs face potential regulatory liability if they suffer…
Published on March 24th, 2022 | by Dr Eric Burger
Until recently, most network security systems relied on robust perimeter defenses encircling an environment of trusted users and programs. Like a medieval walled city, this model focused on authenticating and verifying users, applications, and processes at their points of entry.…
Published on March 15th, 2022 | by Jamie Barton, Jeff Bland & Robert Reisig
The engineers responsible for communication service providers’ (CSPs) lawful interception systems must maintain and update their unique skill sets with ongoing training. The particular expertise required of these team members makes this requirement challenging. In addition to telecom and network…
Published on February 23rd, 2022 | by Kevin McTiernan & Rory Quann
With just over 4 billion unique, public addresses in the IPv4 scheme and north of 10 billion devices today, many Communication Service Providers (CSPs) assign private addresses to subscribers and leverage a carrier-grade network address translation (CG-NAT) to allow those…
Published on January 28th, 2022 | by Dr. Cemal Dikman & David Anstiss
Encrypted Over The Top (OTT) messaging platforms such as WhatsApp, iMessage, Signal, and Telegram have seen extraordinary adoption over the past 10 years. WhatsApp in particular has emerged as the most popular messaging app in the world, with more than…
Published on October 7th, 2021 | by Dr. Cemal Dikmen
Just a tiny fraction of cryptocurrency transactions are related to criminal activity, but they are still a critical mechanism for payment associated with crimes that range from human and drug trafficking to terrorism and ransomware. Cryptocurrency transactions associated with criminal…
