Realizing this two-year cooperation project supports knowledge transfer, safeguards jobs and fosters the industry’s independence: ipoque
ipoque GmbH, a Rohde & Schwarz company, recently announced its collaboration with the Chemnitz University of Technology to advance research on cybersecurity and digital sovereignty. Along with this, ipoque is working on another technical innovation as a market leader in deep packet inspection (DPI). The company mentioned that the project centres around protection from DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) and jamming attacks. For this problem, as per ipoque, only a few practical solutions are currently available, giving it the opportunity to be among the firsts with a fitting solution on the cybersecurity market.
Notably, the call for proposals from the Federal Office for Information Security, which ipoque followed in September 2022, is titled “Cybersecurity and digital sovereignty in the communication technologies 5G/6G” (Cyber-Sicherheit und digitale Souveränität in den Kommunikationstechnologien 5G/6G). The project of ipoque focuses on researching a system that enables providers to securely operate mobile networks. ipoque applied in cooperation with the Chair of Communication Networks (Dr.-Ing Thomas Bauschert) and the Chair of Communications Engineering (Prof. Dr Klaus Mößner) from the Chemnitz University of Technology. Stating it as an optimal synergy between research and development, the company pointed out that it is also planning on constant communication with renowned mobile communication suppliers to ensure the widest user spectrum possible.
The know-how for the abovesaid project stems from the current product portfolio from ipoque, which boasts highly performant analytics solutions. ipoque believes that its DPI engines R&S PACE 2 and R&S vPACE identify and classify thousands of applications and protocols and extract metadata in real time, even if traffic is encrypted or obfuscated. The user and control plane correlation module R&S®GSRM enables mobile networking solution providers to filter, forward and load balance subscriber-specific GTP sessions.
ipoque noted that presently, most 5G networks operate on the so-called ‘security by obscurity’ approach as the mobile network operators and companies promote the network as secure, but the security cannot be proven without revealing their operating principles. According to the company, this makes it easier for attackers to identify and exploit weaknesses that may be unknown to the operators. To benefit both the users and operators from the newest available technologies, the company said that it is developing this solution while also trying to evaluate and ensure the security of 5G and 6G mobile networks.
Germany-based ipoque, a Rohde & Schwarz company, is a global leader in network analytics software for the communications industry. It aims to create software solutions to transform data into intelligence. A nearly 90 years old company, the Rohde & Schwarz technology group provides leading solutions in test & measurement, technology systems, and networks & cybersecurity around the globe.
