A Guide to Understanding the VoIP Security Threat
At its heart, a VoIP system is a data network. This means VoIP deployments are vulnerable to the same internal and external threats that plague any enterprise data local area network (LAN) or wide area network (WAN).
Enterprises pondering voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) primarily focus on the technology's cost benefits. Yet, in their zeal to converge voice and data networks and shave telephony costs, many organizations are failing to adequately consider VoIP's single drawback: security.
Like Seinfeld's George Costanza and the cashmere sweater with the little red dot, most VoIP supporters would prefer to ignore the ugly defect that mars their otherwise stainless technology. Unfortunately, VoIP's little red dot has the potential to cripple enterprise VoIP systems. Worse yet, VoIP's security gaps threaten to wreck havoc in several different, often insidious ways.L33tdawg: Prominent VoIP security researcher, The Grugq will be both releasing a tactical VoIP toolkit called Ravage at HITBSecConf2007 - Dubai and conducting a hands-on technical training session on Tactical VoIP : Applied VoIPhreaking. The telco guys will love it :)
