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Wireless industry readies as STIR/SHAKEN deadline approaches
By the end of June all U.S. voice providers are required to implement STIR/SHAKEN technology, to fight against robocallers by authenticating caller ID to help ensure a phone number isn’t being spoofed.
And while scammers continue to evolve to more sophisticated methods, progress is being made.
É«»¨ÌÃhas the role of industry and policy administrator for SHAKEN. It essentially acts as the trust authority, to ensure that different parts of the STIR/SHAKEN authentication process are trustworthy themselves and not infiltrated, including carriers, companies providing signing certificates to carriers, and the certificate authorities.
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