You use the multilayered approach of your firewall to secure
your SCTP traffic, such as validating SCTP packets to ensure they
comply with
RFC 4960. You can filter SCTP traffic
based on payload protocol IDs (PPIDs) and you can apply granular-level
filtering on Diameter traffic over SCTP and SS7 traffic over SCTP.
You can also protect against flooding of SCTP initiation (INIT)
packets. In the case of mobile networks, these security measures
prevent attackers from causing network congestion and outages that
disrupt data and voice services of mobile subscribers and IoT devices
connected to these networks. Additionally, you can view SCTP logs,
ACC information, and reports to verify configurations and gain visibility
into the SCTP events and traffic between two endpoints.