The Diameter protocol was born in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and designed to be a general-purpose Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) protocol applicable to many ...

A security assessment of the Diameter signalling protocol performed by the researchers at Positive Technologies shows that all existing 4G networks are susceptible to denial-of-service (DoS ...

The authors present the security measures built into the Diameter protocol and how they address some of the threats. Subsequently, they discuss possible ways to mitigate generic security threats that ...