BroadForward again lands high score for its SS7, Diameter, and HTTP/2 security products
Amersfoort, 25 November 2024 – BroadForward, a global leader in intelligent signaling software, has been named a Champion Vendor for Signaling Security in the Kaleido Roaming Vendor Hub 2024 report. In 2023 BroadForward received a GSMA GLOMO nomination for Best Mobile Security for its converged firewall solution.
This latest recognition follows a comprehensive five-month evaluation by Kaleido Intelligence, showcasing BroadForward’s innovative signaling security portfolio and industry excellence.
Kaleido Intelligence, a leading telecom research firm, assessed 60 vendors based on factors such as industry presence, product capabilities, and innovation. The Kaleido Roaming Vendor Hub serves as a trusted resource for operators seeking competitive intelligence to guide vendor selection, partnerships, and strategic decisions.
Nitin Bhas, Chief of Strategy & Insight at Kaleido Intelligence commented “Effectively combating and preventing bad actors within mobile networks requires vendors to provide comprehensive solutions that cover both existing and emerging mobile core network signaling technologies. As security threats evolve across all generations of networks, it’s essential to tackle vulnerabilities across SS7, Diameter, HTTP/2, and beyond. Only through a unified approach to signaling security can operators ensure robust protection for their networks and customers, and stay ahead of sophisticated cyberattacks.”
BroadForward’s signaling security solutions include the SS7 Firewall, Diameter Firewall, HTTP/2 Firewall, Equipment Identity Register, Location-Based Services, and Security Edge Protection Proxy (SEPP). Built on the GSMA award-winning BroadForward Converged Signaling Platform, all products are designed for flexible deployment across bare metal, virtual machines, containers, and cloud environments. The software architecture offers operators a common approach to secure and manage signaling across both legacy and next-generation networks, enabling operators to centrally view, test, execute and adapt real-time security rules.
“This recognition by Kaleido Intelligence underscores BroadForward’s leadership in delivering comprehensive and future-proof signaling security solutions,” said Taco Schoute, CEO of BroadForward. “Our technology empowers operators to uniformly secure their networks across all vital signaling protocols, supporting their existing networks as well as 5G and beyond.”
By combining cutting-edge functionality with a forward-looking strategy, BroadForward continues to lead the way in network security and interworking across 2G/3G, 4G, and 5G technologies.
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