Blue Box SE #11: IMS Security interview with Morgan Stern

Synopsis:Interview about IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) security with Morgan Stern.

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Welcome to Blue Box: The VoIP Security Podcast special edition #11, a 17-minute podcast  from Dan York and Jonathan Zar containing an interview with Morgan Stern, Principal Consultant at Lucent Worldwide Services about the security of IMS systems.

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In this interview, I spoke with Morgan Stern, Principal Consultant, Global Convergence Center of Excellence, Lucent Worldwide Services, about the security of the IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) architecture.  Morgan has just been part of a panel session at Fall VON 2006 in Boston entitled "Securing Communication for IMS" and we covered a range of security topics, including:

• The differences between centralized and distributed architectures
• The various standards bodies involved with IMS
• The emergence of "A-IMS"
• How do we do distributed security?
• How do we verify the authenticity of end devices?
• Is IMS hype or reality?
• Are there really new and innovative services coming out for IMS?
• What are the major security issues for IMS?
• Lawful intercept and its issues
• His role at Lucent and what his work there is about

Morgan also provided a copy of his IMS security presentation that you may download and also mentioned a Light Reading webinar he did on IMS in general that listeners may find of interest.

If you are interested in IMS security, you may also want to listen to Blue Box podcast #35, where we interviewed author Miguel Garcia for his perspective on IMS security.

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