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| Title: | End-user security in mobile telecommunications: Policy perspectives anda
research agenda |
| Authors: | Maitland, Carleen - Pennsylvania State University |
| Issue Date: | 1-Jan-2003 |
| Series/Report no.: | NET Institute Working Paper;03-10 |
| Abstract: | The recent advances in mobile technologies have brought about increased
functionality, however this increased functionality in turn increases
the vulnerability of mobile networks, services and users. In such an
environment supplying secure mobile services requires a high degree of
coordination among a variety of industry players including equipment
manufacturers, application developers, operating system developers and
service providers. The scale of the challenge can be assessed by merely
observing the difficulties faced by administrators of fixed
organizational networks in their attempts to maintain virus-free
networks in a context where the end users are to some degree under their
control. In this light it is easy to imagine that providing secure
services to end users in a highly decentralized public mobile network
environment will certainly be a challenge. The complexity such services
entail raises questions about whether or not service providers will be
able to deliver and even more challenging offer security quality of
service guarantees. Whether or not secure mobile services will be
offered is a function of both supply and demand. While certain measures
can be taken to assist the traditional market mechanisms that face
challenges when high degrees of coordination are required there may also
be a role for public policy. As both a component of critical
infrastructures and as a licensed use of the public spectrum with public
interest obligations, there may be a basis for public policy mechanisms
to be employed to facilitate the supply of such services. In this
paper we address these issues by first exploring factors affecting the
supply and demand of security technologies and services. This is
followed by a review of the policy context and recent developments in
the U.S. and Europe. Information from these synopses are then combined
with findings from our companion report "The Delft UMTS Testbed and
End-user Security Features: to suggest a research agenda that if
implemented will answer fundamental questions concerning the future of
end-user mobile security. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2451/28388 |
| Appears in Collections: | NET Institute Working Papers Series
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