VoIP: the security debate

roundup The main draw of voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) has always been its promise to reduce a company's communications cost. Businesses can leverage on their existing IP network infrastructure to run both voice and data, bypassing the need to implement and support a separate infrastructure for voice traffic.

But VoIP has been in the news of late, for all the wrong reasons, with industry observers issuing warnings about potential security attacks such as phishing and pharming.

However, analyst firm Gartner has come out to refute claims of these vulnerabilities, dismissing them as scare tactics laid out by vendors to increase sales. Read more about this and other relevant story highlights below.

Gartner hits out at security hype
Companies have been urged to stand firm in the face of vendors trying to scare them into opening their wallets.
June 10, 2005

Pharming and other security woes hector VoIP
With hackers now focusing on Net phone calls, security needs to be tightened, say executives gathered in Chicago for Supercomm 2005.
June 7, 2005

VoIP: Is it for you?
Voice over IP is garnering strong market interest in Australia. Here's a look at a few companies that are ahead of the pack.
June 6, 2005

VoIP finds foreign friends and adversaries
Internet phone provider Vonage has all but tapped Singapore to start its expansion into Asia later this year.
May 17, 2005

Security fears put wrench in VoIP networks
Worries over viruses and network downtime are keeping chief information officers from going for purely IP networks--and that's why Avaya uses Linux, according to Don Peterson, CEO of the networking company.
May 5, 2005