Security and Authentication in the Mobile World

Mobile systems are evolving into data centric, packet switched,multiacess networks. New types of security threats are emerging in thesenew networks. From the user point of view a seamless solution for thesethreats is required. This paper presents a vision of network convergenceand its implications to authentication and authorization solutions.Security requirements are discussed and current authentication solutionsin GSM, UMTS and operator wireless local area networks (OWLAN) areintroduced. All-IP multimedia session security is discussed.Implications of AdHoc network architecture into security requirement arediscussed.