1. Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) 14
DOCUMENT #:
GSC14-GTSC7-012
FOR:
Presentation
SOURCE:
ATIS
AGENDA ITEM:
GTSC7; 4.2
CONTACT(S):
Art Reilly
ATIS Cybersecurity
Art Reilly, Cisco
Geneva, July 2009

2. Highlight of Current Activities (1)
ATIS’ Packet Technologies and Systems Committee (PTSC)
Completed:
UNI and NNI signalling security standards
UNI and NNI testing standards
Encourages interfaces to support logging, thereby facilitating the creation of incident reports
Geneva, July 2009

3. Highlight of Current Activities (2)
PTSC continues to focus on security-related topics that will ensure robust signalling and communications standards and network implementations that will provide adequate protection and support for multimedia and emergency services in the current cybersecurity environment:
Authentication
Security Mechanisms
Location
Identity Management
Certificate Management
PTSC has also initiated an activity which will define interconnection test suites
Geneva, July 2009

4. Highlight of Current Activities (3)
PTSC’s focus is on specifying security considerations for Layers 1 through 5 for UNIs, NNIs and SNIs
Generation of templates will:
Attempt to limit number of available interconnection options, without compromising the desired flexibility in implementing the services, thereby facilitating interoperability
Facilitate interconnection negotiations
Ensure adequate security will be provided
Geneva, July 2009

5. Highlight of Current Activities (4)
ATIS’ Network Performance, Reliability, and QoS Committee (PRQC)
Approved User-Network Interface (UNI) Media Plane Security Standard for Evolving VoIP/Multimedia Networks (ATIS )
Currently working on Standard for Media Plane Performance Security Impairments Standard for Evolving VoIP/Multimedia Networks (Issue A035)
Document potential QoS degradations associated with security mechanisms
Identify potential security problems associated with QoS mechanisms
Current/Future work:
Development of Standards extending from the work outlined in ATIS , Information & Communications Security for NGN Converged Services IP Networks and Infrastructure
Geneva, July 2009

6. Highlight of Current Activities (5)
ATIS’ Telecom Management and Operations Committee (TMOC)
Recently completed work:
ATIS , Guidelines and Requirements for Security Management Systems
Includes an ATIS TMOC proforma requirements statement for security aligning with ITU-T M.3410
TMOC will continue to address:
Management aspects of security, especially concerning NGN Carrier Interconnection arrangements and VoIP Registry Database Provisioning
Geneva, July 2009

7. Strategic Direction
ATIS continues to develop a suite of security standards that well facilitate secure interconnection of:
transport facilities
signalling facilities
services
ATIS is not focusing on:
Security Mechanisms for Messaging Applications
Tracking
ATIS is looking to ITU-T to address the messaging and tracking areas in the short term. If ITU-T does not address this subject, ATIS may reconsider work in this area.
Geneva, July 2009

8. Challenges SIP security solutions are tailored to be end to end.
SIP/SIPPING/SIMPLE/etc. RFCs have well written security sections that are not fully implemented in vendor products.
Security solutions have an impact on delay and performance.
Availability of ITU-T Recommendations which can be used to facilitate secure transport and service interconnection.
Geneva, July 2009

9. Next Steps/Actions
ATIS will continue on its current path of generating a complete suite of standards that can be used to facilitate interconnection negotiations and result in interconnection scenarios that are secure.
Geneva, July 2009

10. Proposed Resolution
Continued support for GSC-13 Security Related Resolutions:
Resolution GSC-13/4 - Identity Management
Resolution GSC-13/11 - Cybersecurity
Resolution GSC-13/25 - Personally Identifiable Information Protection
Geneva, July 2009

11. Supplemental Slides
Geneva, July 2009

12. Supplemental Slides
PTSC Issues may be found at:
PTSC Active Issues which have a security component are:
Issue # Title
S0033 End to End User Authentication and Signaling Security
S0051 ATIS NGN Identity Management Requirements
S0052 UNI Terminal Adapter Requirements
S0053 UNI Configuration
S0055 Security Mechanisms
S0058 ATIS NGN Identity Management Framework
S0059 ATIS NGN Identity Management Use Cases
S0060 ATIS NGN Identity Management Mechanisms
S0061 Certificate Management
S0063 ATIS ETS Authentication
S0065 Enterprise Network Support in NGN
S0073 Security Guidelines for DBF Interface
S0074 Security Guidelines for Carrier Interconnection (NNI)
Geneva, July 2009

13. Supplemental Slides
PRQC Issues may be found at:
PRQC Active Issues which have a security component are:
Issue # Title
A0010 User Plane Security Requirements in NGNs
A0014 Network-Network Interface (NNI) User Plane Security
A0019 ETS Authentication in Multiple IP-based Service Domains
A0029 Establishment of an ATIS Security Baseline
A0035 Impact of Security on QOS Performance in NGNs
A0045 Service-specific Security Mechanism Implementation Options
Geneva, July 2009