The STIR/SHAKEN framework

Anti-Swatting Efforts by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Through a process and revisions to communications frameworks designed to protect consumers from unidentified ‘robo-calls’, these same type of calls should be disrupted going to Public Safety Access Points (PSAPs).

STIR/SHAKEN is a framework of interconnected standards. STIR/SHAKEN are acronyms for the Secure Telephone Identity Revisited (STIR) and Signature-based Handling of Asserted Information Using toKENs (SHAKEN) standards. This means that calls traveling through interconnected phone networks can have their caller ID “signed” as legitimate by originating carriers and validated by other carriers before reaching consumers. STIR/SHAKEN digitally validates the handoff of phone calls passing through the complex web of networks, allowing the phone company of the consumer receiving the call to verify that a call is in fact from the number displayed on Caller ID.

Source: FCC