SIPassure from BorderWare
BorderWare will showcase the industry’s first SIP-based technology designed to protect Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communications from hackers, spoofers and malicious threats. BorderWare has been invited to demonstrate SIPassure, its application-level firewall, on stage at DEMO@15!, one of the industry’s premiere events focused on emerging technologies and new products.
“As the VoIP revolution unfolds, users need to be aware of the many exploits that could compromise their next Internet call,” said Chris Shipley, DEMO executive producer. “BorderWare’s VoIP security technology guards against many of the pitfalls associated with the adoption and deployment of this new communications technology. BorderWare’s SIPassure has the potential to make VoIP a safe option for everyone.”
BorderWare will demonstrate how VoIP communications facilitated through the industry standard Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) are vulnerable to a series of application-level exploits including:
* Denial-of-Service (DoS) and Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS)
attacks that can consume large amounts of bandwidth in a VoIP network,
grinding it to a halt.
* Eavesdropping and “man-in-the-middle” attacks that allow hackers to
become part of a VoIP call without the communicating parties ever
knowing someone is listening in.
* Call Redirection, which enables a hacker to automatically call-forward
a connection to their system.
* Malicious Calling, VBombing and VoIP Spam, which are nefarious attacks
that flood the receiver with hundreds of false voice mails within
seconds.
* Spoofing, Phishing or Fake Caller ID, in which a hacker can masquerade
as a trusted person making legitimate voice calls to an unsuspecting
patron.
“While the industry works to secure voice communications at the transport layer with VPN-type encryption, hackers are developing tools that attack Internet calls at the application layer, gaining unauthorized access to a VoIP connection,” said John Alsop, Chairman, BorderWare. “To protect VoIP communications at the application layer you need a SIP firewall that is able to authenticate the user attempting to make a connection and to provide systems administrators with the ability to easily set and enforce their VoIP security policies.”
For more information visit http://www.borderware.com
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