Detection and analysis of vulnerabilities in convergent network platforms

The technological changes that have been developing since the mid-1980s produced, among other effects, the unstoppable growth of the Internet. Thanks to the wide availability of bandwidth, an adequate context was created for the implementation of convergent networks, displacing the traditional voice and data networks, and making the Internet to become the public network model of this century.This fact, together with the availability of services in the cloud, brings new and numerous advantages, such as mobility, ubiquity, cost reduction in calls, among others; although this also brings new challenges such as the need of being able to establish certain security parameters to reduce the risks and mitigate the possible consequences of the actions of cybercriminals.The latter takes great importance because, although, any user having an Internet connection can access to this type of services, at the same time, it opens the possibility that any cybercriminal in the world could try to take possession of these systems, which could imply economic consequences or unavailability of resources.The present article shows the partial results of a Research Project that aims to analyze the different current attack vectors for the new convergent platforms, the digital defense technologies and the role of the users in the application, so as to be able to detect and analyze the vulnerabilities of the implementations together with the risks that may arise, and propose alternatives for their mitigation.