Telecom Signaling Penetration Testing
Explore for vulnerabilities in your telecom network.
Your defense is only as strong as its weakest link
The golden rule in security is to think offensive and prepare your defense accordingly. Regular penetration testing on your network will help you identify potential vulnerabilities well in advance and address them before they are exploited. Our team of highly skilled penetration testers will help you enhance your telecom network security posture and reduce the risk of attacks. This will automatically result in an improved operation efficiency.
Know your vulnerabilities
Secure your perimeter
Boost your Defense
Boost your network signal and defenses without exposing your network to attackers through our practical and customized guidance to address your threats in signalling.
SS7/SIGTRAN Penetration Testing
Diameter Penetration Testing
GTP Penetration Testing
Benefits of Penetration Testing
Conducting a periodic penetration testing over your telecom network will let you check your organization’s capability and endurance in securing the network, systems, endpoints and users against existing and emerging internal and external threats.
- As an certain organization's security posture and identifying any weakness.
- Ensure controls are operational and hold up for the intended purpose.
- Understand the impact of emerging threats on the system and fixing them in time.
- Identify internal and external threats including human induced vulnerabilities and addressing them appropriately.

Vulnerabilities we check
Vulnerabilities for the telecom sector are different from the regular IT environment. These would include understanding of various types of attacks on the network like tracking or signalling vulnerabilities. At Matrix-Shell, our experts are well trained in identifying telecom sector specific vulnerabilities. The range of vulnerabilities we check include but not limited to: –

Call Interception

OTP Interception / 2FA Bypass

Location Tracking

Denial of service attack- Subscriber / Network wide

Premium rate number fraud

Banking Fraud

Billing Fraud

VAS fraud
Detect signalling threats across all protocols


Adherence with GSMA guidelines
Adherence to guidelines and best practice suggestions by GSMA would ensure you will always be secure. Matrix-shell is a member of GSMA and our experts who are well-verse with GSMA guidelines will assess your network and provide you a picture of your adherence with GSMA guidelines. Definitions and classifications like Cat-1, Cat-2 and Cat-3 in FS-11, FS-12 and FS-19 of GSMA specifications are reviewed.
See how Matrix-Shell can help to secure your network
Telecom Signalling Penetration Testing Services
SS7/ SIGTRAN Penetration Testing
- Test your SS7 network and signaling firewall implementation as per GSMA Guidelines as well as for custom exploits.
- Matrix-shell have In-house developed tool which is used for this penetration testing.
- Tests carried out with reference to the following documents.
- FS.07 SS7 and SIGTRAN Network Security v4.0 (Current).
- FS.11 SS7 Interconnect Security Monitoring and Firewall Guidelines v6.0


Diameter Penetration Testing
- Test your Diameter network and signaling firewall implementation as per GSMA Guidelines as well as for custom exploits.
- Matrix-shell have in-house developed tool which is used for this penetration testing.
- GSMA FS.19 Diameter Interconnect Security v8.1
GTP Penetration Testing
- Test your GTP network and signaling firewall implementation as per GSMA Guidelines as well as for custom exploits.
- Matrix-shell have in-house developed tool which is used for this penetration testing.
- Tests carried out with reference to the following documents.
- FS.20 GPRS Tunneling Protocol (GTP) Security.
- FS.37 GTP-U Security.
