FCC (Federal Communications Commission)

The Federal Communications Commission is the independent US federal agency that regulates interstate communications by radio, television, wire, satellite, and cable. The FCC issues spectrum licences, enforces the STIR/SHAKEN caller-ID authentication mandate, oversees lawful interception requirements (CALEA), and publishes equipment authorisation rules under Part 15 and Part 22.

Categories: Radio Access NetworkSecurity ControlsThreats and Attacks

FCC in context

The radio access network is where mobile devices attach to the operator's infrastructure. Attacks in this layer include IMSI catching, rogue base stations and downgrade attacks; defenses rest on mutual authentication, integrity-protected signaling and Open RAN supply-chain hygiene.

Security controls span signaling firewalls (SS7/Diameter/GTP screening), transport encryption (IPsec, TLS, PRINS), identity and access on OSS/BSS, and monitoring at both packet and log level. Controls are audited against GSMA FS.11/FS.19/FS.20/FS.36.

To place FCC in the wider telecom-security picture, review A5/0, DNS, GNSS Spoofing, HTTP/2 Security in 5G, ICMP and NTP — each entry cross-references back to this page so you can walk the topic in either direction.

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