Xura, Inc. (NASDAQ: MESG), a leading provider of digital communications services, today announces the availability of its Signaling Fraud Management System, built to protect mobile operators' signaling networks from sophisticated exploits and security threats. Xura's highly efficient and topographically independent solution, provides 360-degree security and privacy protection, addressing many types of signalling network attacks. With a tightly integrated firewall and analytical module, Xura's Signaling Fraud Management System provides mobile operators with advanced, real-time detection of malicious traffic alongside smart prevention mechanisms.

With the full extent of security vulnerabilities in the signaling network only now being exposed and exploits of these vulnerabilities on the rise, mobile operators need a managed solution to guard the integrity of their networks, as well as their subscribers' privacy. Xura, an industry expert in signaling, has taken an advanced approach to security by enabling the operator to introduce a specialized element at the network interconnect points to function as Signaling Fraud Management. This advanced and lightweight approach integrates easily into any signaling network, and is secured by Xura's powerful, heuristics engine that screens and performs validation across all levels of the network protocol stack, addressing today's threats and those that are yet to come.

"For the mobile operator, signaling is the central nervous system of their network with mission-critical, real-time data on subscriber identity, status, location, technology and servicing elements. Because of weaknesses in the current signaling protocols (SS7, Diameter, SIP), they are open to exploitation and prone to attack from hackers who can expose mobile subscriber's data and violate privacy by stealing money, listening to conversations, monitoring messages, manipulating data, and generally disrupting services," said Jim Saunders, EVP Digital Communication at Xura. "Not only does the Xura's state-of-the-art solution block suspicious traffic, it also secures the network against any type of protocol vulnerabilities, which someone with the right technical knowledge might exploit and then strike in the future."