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Beyond Encryption: VoIP Security Risks

July 26th, 2006 · No Comments


Apart from the security of your own VoIP traffic, you need to be concerned whether your botnet.jpgnetworking resources are being used without your knowledge or permission to route other people’s VoIP traffic.

"Arrests Indicate Vulnerability of Web Phone Service to Fraud" blared a recent Wall Street Journal headline — though I doubt any readers thought broadband VoIP was invulnerable to hacking.

A few pages later, "Who’s Watching Internet-Phone Services?" decried that state and federal agencies regulating traditional telephony Relevant Products/Services from are largely hands-off with Internet telephony So, while VoIP technology has proven ready for prime time, our attention needs to turn to security and management.

Such is the momentum behind VoIP — largely fueled by almost irresistible economics — that security concerns, once paramount, are often left by the wayside. I spoke during a seminar tour a few years back on the topic of implementing VoIP in the enterprise, and security was always a focus of the question-and-answer sessions.

One network manager was so concerned about VoIP conversations being easily captured at any point on the network between the participants that he predicted his company would not use VoIP unless every conversation was encrypted. Beyond Encryption: VoIP Security Risks - -

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