Properties of SCTP

• It is a connection oriented protocol which transfers data from one end to another using different routing paths.
• Corrupted or damaged data packets can be detected using SACK and checksums.
• It does not depend on IP layer for pliancy.
• Reordering of data can be achieved more efficiently as compared to TCP

With the growth of digital platforms, rise in malicious activities has been increased to target unsecure or less secure platforms for different purposes like identity theft, stealing personal data for psychographic profiles etc. Hence, security becomes the priority of all the digital platforms and to ensure proper security different tools are used and Wireshark is one of them. It is a network analyzer which captures data packets and gives a clear idea of network security and vulnerabilities which can be dealt with to make the network secure.

SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) is a network protocol which works on transport layer for call signaling. It can be understood as next level of TCP because it overcomes all the problems of TCP and UDP. It is used to send multiple streams of data among devices. Telephonic conversations can be easily done using SCTP. It can send additional data along with voice data at the same time, so it works as full duplex. SCTP was developed by Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for managing multimedia data transfer.