More VOIP More Security - What needs to be done when securing VOIP

VOIP adoption seems to be speeding up, as bandwidth and hardware becomes more affordable and as legacy systems are being displaced. IT professionals are now becoming telecoms experts and in turn needing to pay more attention to VOIP. This move towards an integrated Voice into IT/IS systems has significant security implications that need to be understood so that reasonable counter measures can be implemented. In this article we will cover how to implement a VOIP solution whilst abiding by a security framework, and the challenges that we can expect when implementing VOIP.

As technology moves forward the prices of the solutions drop and more features are bundled with the solutions, the more people and organisations that adopt the solutions the cheaper and easier the solutions are to implement. Unfortunately security takes time to catch up and security is often retrofitted onto the solution as an afterthought. This is true for solutions that incorporate VOIP. For this reason it is important to work with a security framework that secures the implemented solution. Devices today are computationally powerful enough to handle present and future encryption ciphers making encryption a possibility.