Telecoms is broken. Here's exactly how.
We could pretend the legacy stack is fine and just sell against price. We won't. Below: the actual problems that cost enterprises millions every year - paired with how Boundless answers each.
SS7 and Diameter signalling exploits
Both protocols predate the modern threat landscape. Attackers with access to a roaming partner can intercept SMS, locate subscribers, and redirect calls - and detection on most networks is minimal.
Abel runs continuous behavioural baselining on every signalling event. Out-of-pattern queries are flagged, throttled, and logged immutably. Customers see the alerts in real time - not in next quarter's incident report.
SIM-swap fraud
An attacker calls a customer service line, social-engineers a SIM transfer, and your MFA codes start arriving on their phone. UK Finance and equivalent EU bodies report this remains one of the fastest-growing fraud vectors.
Boundless SIMs are cryptographically bound to a device profile. Re-provisioning requires multi-party authorisation and produces an immutable audit entry visible to your security team.
Opaque roaming markups
Multi-country fleets receive a single line on the bill - "international data" - with no path-by-path breakdown. Margins of 300%+ over wholesale are common and almost impossible to challenge after the fact.
Per-session route attestation. You see exactly which network carried each megabyte and at what wholesale rate. Pricing surprises become impossible.
Vendor lock-in disguised as 'managed service'
Most enterprise SIM plans are written so that switching providers means re-provisioning every device, often manually, often on-site. The TCO of "changing carriers" becomes prohibitive on purpose.
Multi-IMSI SIMs from day one. Your devices keep their hardware identity even if commercial terms change. The exit ramp is part of the contract.
Bolt-on security as a separate SKU
Telecoms security is typically sold as an add-on after the network is live - meaning the protections operate above the layer where most attacks actually happen.
Abel is not a SKU. It's the fabric. Every SIM, session, and admin action is verified by the same system that delivers your traffic.
IMSI catchers and rogue base stations
Cheap commodity hardware lets attackers stand up fake cells in public spaces, harvest IMSIs, and downgrade connections to insecure protocols.
Continuous network attestation. Devices verify the cell they're on against a known-good fingerprint and refuse downgrades. Anomalies trigger automatic isolation.
Compliance as paperwork, not posture
ISO 27001 and SOC 2 reports describe what the operator promises. They rarely describe what the network actually does on a Tuesday at 02:00.
Compliance as a continuous, exportable property of the platform. Live evidence, not annual screenshots.