VoIP and multimedia protocols in wireless and firewalled environments

✍ Scribed by Matt Gordon-Smith; Stephen Wing

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 210 KB
• Volume: 2006
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1353-4858
• DOI: 10.1016/s1353-4858(06)70412-3

✦ Synopsis

The recent increase of geographically dispersed users and telecommuting has given rise to greater requirements for better methods of collaboration and interaction between personnel. This has increased the prevalence of technologies such as Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and multimedia protocols such as video-conferencing, web-casting and Instant Messaging. The capabilities of the Internet and many private networks have ensured that all these functions are able to run across existing infrastructure, encouraging network convergence and reducing costs. However, implementing these applications in firewalled environments and over wireless networks poses a number of security issues, which need to be addressed as part of any such deployment.

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VoIP and multimedia protocols in wireless and firewalled environments

Matt Gordon-Smith & Stephen Wing, Senior Consultants, Siemens Insight Consulting Large numbers of IT departments are currently grappling with security issues around the deployment of VoIP and multimedia protocols in wireless and firewalled environments. What should they be considering? Network Security