Protect | Securing Messaging for Wholesale Operators
As wholesale operators open up more interconnection points, and support new interfaces for message submission from applications, they are also giving fraudsters and spammers new opportunities for targeting their clients’’ subscribers via the messaging service. New service concepts including m-commerce, mobile banking, and e-wallets would be rendered unworkable if vital messaging bearer technologies become compromised.
The Protect module is designed to allow wholesale carriers to detect fraudulent or undesirable messaging traffic traversing their hubs. The benefits that the Protect module offers to the hub provider include:
- Fraudulent traffic can be blocked, ensuring that only genuine traffic that can be charged for is terminated.
- Clients can be protected against undesirable traffic, thereby removing an important barrier to the success of intercarrier messaging.
- Clients can be charged for the extra security features offered by Protect.
Importantly, a hub provider using Protect can effectively compete with other wholesale carriers by
providing high quality security features to their client operators.
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