Last fall, I blogged about a pending standard for securing facsimile communications over IP networks here and I spoke about this progress at the SIPNOC conference. Since that time, the standard, known as RFC 7345 has been approved by the Internet Engineering Task Force. The availability of a standard is very good news. There’s a common…
I’ll be speaking next week at the SIPNOC conference in Herndon, Virginia. SIPNOC is sponsored by the SIP Forum and covers a wide variety of topics related to SIP — the Session Initiation Protocol — with a particular focus on the needs of service providers. It runs from June 9 – 12. WebRTC continues to…
The recent controversy regarding NSA tracking of phone conversations has elevated concerns about security and privacy for business communications. Enterprises generally want to keep their communications private. Use of techniques such as private networks, firewalls and secured tunnels can help to protect internal communication from eavesdroppers, but there are also many exchanges which entail communication…
The recent headlines about the NSA capturing data related to phone calls brings up a familiar topic – security. I’ve been managing a session border controller product for the past year and I’ve often been asked if the product supports security. This can be a frustrating question for a product manager, since security is a…