Q1) How is Telecomm Network Security useful/applicable at Information Technology workplace.

Q2) What are the applications of Telecomm Network Security at Information Technology workplace.

 

Telecomm Network Security

1. How is Telecomm Network Security Useful/Applicable at Information Technology (IT) Workplace

Telecomm network security helps to monitor all the core network elements, interconnects, and outgoing graphics to identify vulnerabilities that might lead to security threats and attacks. Cyber-attacks have been a significant threat to telecommunication, especially the injection of ransomware and malware in the system by malicious hackers aiming at unauthorized access to sensitive personal data and interrupt information transition. The attackers leverage malicious formed Session Initiation Protocol traffics in the network to initiate a denial of service attacks to invade it (Kumar, 2015). The attack leads to traffic integrity breaches, privacy concerns, supply chain issues, global title leasing complications, network misconfigurations, and challenges of overall network complexity.

Other telecomm network security threats include routing attacks, Sybil attacks, domain name security attacks, the distributed network attacks. Also, telecomm network security help to conduct penetration tests and external network assessment to identify weaknesses and implement solid firewall configuration programs to harden the network’s terminal nodes. It helps to enforce strong network encryption, inspect all messages and sort out the unauthorized traffics to protect all information transmissions. Telecomm network security provides a domain that encompasses security measures, transport protocols, structures and techniques that helps to provide the four principles of information technology security; authentication, availability, integrity, and confidentiality. The aspects of cybersecurity help to ensure solid protection of sensitive personal data by ensuring the information stored in databases is accurate, blocking unauthorized users, and keeping a backup plan if some information is breached or lost.

Furthermore, telecomm network security help to reduce network congestion, balance all traffic and ensure fast data transmissions and timely delivery of information to the final address (Liyanage et al., 2016). Malicious hackers mainly target congested networks since they are prone to numerous vulnerabilities, and attackers' traffic is hardly noticed. In addition, telecomm network security helps identify malicious nodes in wireless networks, which might disrupt the data transmissions to the recipient. Hackers work day and night to bring down their target or destroy an organization’s reputation. Therefore, Telecomm network security helps to monitor their traffic and communication to lay down immediate actions to block the system vulnerabilities to avoid attacks.

2. What are the Applications of Telecomm Network Security at Information Technology Workplace

 Telecomm Network Security is used in the process of developing a framework for access control. It uses authentication to identify users’ and approve user credentials to block unauthorized access. The access control framework also focuses on scenarios where users suffer denial of service threats and intervene to give them full access. Information Technology Officers also use Telecomm Network Security for behavioral analytics programs (Mozhaev et al., 2017). The programs help master the normal network behavior. It frequently monitors the system to identify anomalies, malicious traffic, and security breaches that lead to losing sensitive personal data to unauthorized users, network intruders, and black-hat hackers.

Furthermore, Telecomm Network Security is used in designing and developing application security tools. Insecure applications are prone to most cyber-attacks; hence Telecomm Network Security is used in IT to create and employ security processes, software, and hardware to lock the application. Also, IT officers use Telecomm Network Security to develop and implement anti-malware software. The software helps prevent initial infection and the attempts to spread Trojans, worms and viruses in networks and applications to alter their functioning. The malware is injected into networks by malicious hackers to establish vulnerability to invade the system. Telecomm Network Security is used for network segmentation on various IT software. It classifies network traffic into different segments to enforce network security protocols easily.

In addition, Telecomm Network Security is used to develop and protect wireless and mobile devices. It is also used in developing email security. It identifies phishing emails and blocks them to prevent incoming attacks, which might be risky to the underlying sensitive data. Additionally, Telecomm Network Security is used to detect and avoid intrusion into IT networks (Rathore et al., 2017). It scans the network traffic to identify, block, and prevent attacks into applications and databases. Lastly, Telecomm Network Security is applied in developing and implementing firewalls. They form a border between the internet and network to permit or deny traffic into the most critical and trusted zones.