Security for Telecommunications Network Management

"Meet the challenge of protecting your telecommunications network management system with SECURITY FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK MANAGEMENT. Leading expert Moshe Rozenblit explains pertinent security-related features to use in your products and offers practical solutions to enable you to plan, implement, and manage the evolution of your network security mechanisms and to better manage security components from several suppliers to ensure overall security of your network management.

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of security for telecommunications network management including these featured topics:


* Overview of network management for security professionals
* Introduction to security mechanisms for network managers
* A complete account of OSI-based security management
* In-depth analysis of security operations for telecommunications networks
* Insights into how to integrate security of network management, management of security-related information, and network operations
* The latest security for all standard protocols used in network management: CMIP, CORBA, EDI, and SNMP
* Astute comparison of security options and their tradeoffs.


SECURITY FOR TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK MANAGEMENT is intended to assist network architects, operations planners, system designers, software engineers, and operation systems developers in understanding and addressing the security implications of the telecommunications network (TMN) in the telecommunications industry, as well as in finance, large manufacturing, military, and government environments."

About the Author Moshe Rozenblit has been a key figure in the formulation of TMN security for the past six years. His career in telecommunications started 24 years ago at AT&T Bell Laboratories and continued at Bellcore and NYNEX Science and Technology. Currently Dr. Rozenblit is a senior engineer for network management and related standards at Telcordia Technologies. He is the chair and cochair of two North American groups charged with developing TMN security standards and implementation guidelines. Dr. Rozenblit is the editor (or coeditor) and major contributor of several standards for TMN security, both international and North American. He is a frequently invited speaker on TMN security at major industry forums and leading universities. Dr. Rozenblit holds two U.S. patents and is the recipient of several recognition awards from Bell Laboratories, the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions, and the Telecommunications Industry Forum.