Saving VoIP from spam, security threats

Now that VoIP has started to deliver on some of the hype, wouldn’t it be a shame if spammers and hackers screwed things up? Researchers at a handful of leading universities are taking steps to see this doesn’t happen. Armed with a fresh $600,000 from the National Science Foundation, the University of North Texas and others are creating a testbed to explore VoIP spam, denial-of-service attacks and other threats. Read more about their VoIP security plan here. Also, learn what the companies making up the VoIP Security Alliance are doing to protect VoIP.

Bob Brown, bbrown@nww.com