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VoIP industry moves to bolster network security: new group to define requirements.(TECHNOLOGY)
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America's Network
- Article date:
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May 1, 2005
- Author:
- Poe, Robert
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Looking a decade ahead, the VoIP industry has taken its first steps towards foiling future attempts by Internet-style hackers to bring down a major IP phone service. A new group, the VoIP Security Alliance, or VOIPSA, recently launched two projects aimed at developing industrial-grade VoIP security methods.
VOIPSA members include manufacturers, service providers, research institutions and consultancies. The first two projects of the organization, which was formed in February, aim to develop a "threat taxonomy" and to define security requirements.
VOIPSA's efforts will be of particular interest to manufacturers of session border controllers, or SBCs, which will for a ...