Seven Tips For VoIP Security Success

It won't be long before VoIP (voice over Internet Protocol) security breaches are routine occurrences. Will your customers be protected?

According to Infonetics Research, almost half of small and two-thirds of large organizations in North America will be using VoIP products and services by 2010, which is more than twice as many organizations that used VoIP products and services in 2006. One thing that's inevitably going to coincide with this widespread adoption is a host of security threats. "Japan already is beginning to experience SPIT [i.e. Internet telephony-based spam], and in June 2006 there was a high-profile case of VoIP fraud involving a man who broke into various VoIP service providers' networks and stole more than 10 million minutes of VoIP calling minutes," says David Endler, director of security research at TippingPoint, a division of 3Com, and coauthor of Hacking Exposed VoIP.

In addition to Endler, Business Solutions spoke with the other coauthor of Hacking Exposed VoIP, Mark Collier, CTO of SecureLogix, as well as VoIP security experts from Avaya, Cisco, and Interwork. From the combined input of these experts, Business Solutions put together the following seven tips VARs can take to make sure your customers don't become VoIP security victims.