IMEI Security Technical Design Principles

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This document helps device manufacturers develop a comprehensive security architecture that facilitates the deployment of a range of solutions to protect the platform on which the IMEI mechanism is stored.

Audience:  Technical security practitioner

Resource technology specifics: User equipment

Resource type: Guideline

Resource enforcement: Voluntary

Resource certification type: Self-assessment

Key Benefits
  • Device vendors would have a better appreciation of how the device identity should be protected
  • It highlights how backdoors can compromise device identity
  • Non-confidential document