*NWW VoIP Security Buyer's Guide helps in pinpointing protective wares
Phishing and flooding and hijacking, oh my!
In an interview with Senior Editor Tim Greene, David Endler, chairman and founder of the VoIP Security Alliance and director of security research for TippingPoint, warns IT folks that not only are VoIP streams susceptible to run of the mill network infrastructure attacks, but now they can fall prey to new VoIP specific attacks as well. Endler details the ills of VoIP phishing attacks that involve spoofed auto attendants and registration hijacking schemes that could result in your CEO’s calls getting forwarded to the wrong IP address.
The good news is that there are network configuration precautions to take and VoIP-specific security products to put in place that will lessen your VoIP deployment’s susceptibility. In our featured Network World IT Buyers Guide this week, the VoIP Security Buyer’s Guide, we’ve amassed detailed product information on 15 VoIP security products from a half dozen vendors. With this guide, registered users can slice and dice this product-specific data based on feature set, pricing, and deployment parameters in any fashion that suits their own network’s needs. Additionally, registered Buyer’s Guide users get instant, exclusive access to the independent product testing Network World has conducted in this area.
While it may not be as easy as following a yellow brick road, the information contained in this guide could help you along the path to becoming a VoIP security whiz.
