VoIP Security Alliance Forms
VoIP Security Alliance Forms
Most significant companies in security and telecommunications reunite to make us aware of
security for VoIP telephony.
The best companies in either telecom or PC security announced that starting today they are
uniting their forces to make people aware of threats to VoIP technology ( Voice Over Internet
Protocol ) .
VoIP Security Alliance plans to spread the information about the risks of VoIP security by the
means of official reports , discussion lists and research projects and wishes to encourage
adoption of VoIP . The director of digital vaccine form a 3 Com Corp. called Tippingpoint
thinks this could be done by promoting the best solutions for the corporations willing to get
VoIP and by warning of all possible problems such as DOS- Denial of service , spam and others.
The VoIP Security Alliance is the first group in cross industry field that focuses on VoIP
security and brings together the top companies on the market : Qualsys and Symantec - they sell
security technology ; Avaya and Alcatel , Comcast - new on the VoIP market and Tippingpoint.
One of the purposes of this alliance is to eliminate untrue conceptions about VoIP - the
technology that enables voice to be transmited over the Internet. A false ideea is the one that
VoIP functions in the exact same way as traditional networks and VoIP Security Alliance is
trying to make people aware that after you install VoIP applications thare are some different
things you must do.
Endler , president of Tippingpoint states that VoIP requires some new stuff for IP networks such
as a higher quality of the Internet service . This in strictly necessary in order for the
conversations to be intelligible and for the privacy of the data transmited over the network.
The risks of network outages are also to be taken into consideration regarding VoIP and also DOS
attacks because in this type of attacks companies loose voice and network access as well. .
Endler spoked about the situation of needing to dial 911 or dialing into an emergency center
which uses VoIP and is being flooded with spam.
What Can Be Done
The VoIP Security Alliance will back researches into VoIP security tools and spread info about
the flaws in Internet.
For instance , this group will promote some special tools for VoIP security such as a fuzzer
for a VoIP protocol called Session Initiation Protocol or SIP .Endler said that this type of
tool is able to preview the vulnerabilities and weak spots on SIP that could lead to attacks.
He also said that VoIP Security Alliance will also teach consumers about the most ssuitable
practices on using VoIP , how equipement should be set up and haow voice data must be separated
from other types of that on the converged networks.
Although most members of this group are large companies, the memebership is open to university
research groups , individual researchers or other experts in Internet voice communications .
The majority of big players on the VoIP market have already joined the alliance but there are
still some leading comapnies out there that haven’t requested memebership yet suc as Cisco
Systems - important network equipment maker and Juniper Networks.
Director of Tippingpoint is qiute sure that by providing reliable advice and information on
Internet telephony security issues. the group will make it even without the support of important
network gear vendors .
Individual researchers and enthusiasts willing to become memebers of VoIP Security Alliance can
subscribe easily on the web site of the group wich is also linked to the Open Web Application
Security Project ( volunteers producing documentation , tools and other stuff for Interent
application security).