SonicWALL calls for action to improve VoIP security

VoIP phones are cheaper, but safe? Imagine that when you dial an emergency service number over a VoIP phone, you cannot connect because of a distributed denial of service (DoS) attack. Or, think of it as a customer call, but in fact a phishing (phisher) Displays the customer's phone number on your phone by deception. Who can respond so quickly, to be able to hang up the phone in time to avoid spyware or Trojan programs to download? These things can happen with the popularity of VoIP. Mr. Jonathan Zar, senior director of business development at SonicWALL (NASDAQ:SNWL), first proposed encouraging Chinese organizations and individuals to use VoIP technology in a legitimate way. Earlier this year, Mr. Zar was selected as a member of the VoIP Network Telephony Security Alliance (VOIPSA) Committee and chaired by the Secretary-General and the Education/Outreach department. The Network Telephony Security Alliance (VOIPSA) is an open organization designed to raise public awareness of the security and confidentiality of Internet telephony. Recently, the organization is working to draft security measures needed for VoIP networks as well as related documents on threat patterns. Today, Mr. Zar called for action to improve VoIP security and encourage Chinese companies to join the VOIPSA. "Now that China is experiencing the world's largest urbanization process, 20 new cities will appear in China each year, which will be a significant turning point in China's infrastructure development," he said. Adopting a technology as secure as VoIP is essential for China to achieve low-cost, practical multimedia communications to help the urbanisation process. Mr. Zar added: "If you look at cities like Tokyo and Seoul, you can see that with the help of VoIP technology, China has the opportunity to achieve the same success quickly." SonicWALL and VOIPSA believe that by uniting and adopting a legitimate approach, China can fully benefit from VoIP technology. I encourage as many Chinese companies as possible to join the VOIPSA. "China's IP voice service is developing rapidly. According to IDC data, by 2008 China's VoIP services market will increase from 2003 to 3.36 billion U.S. dollars to 5.6 billion U.S. dollars. From 2003 to 2008, the average annual growth rate of VoIP services in China's commercial communications industry is expected to exceed 12%. However, SonicWALL and Voipsa think the time is ripe for better security measures to be taken to ensure VoIP users in China and around the world. "There is no doubt that VoIP will be the future of communication trends, the current growth rate of VoIP in the Asia-Pacific region has surpassed the United States and Europe." However, security measures to protect VoIP users also need to catch up with this pace of development. This is why we call on businesses to pay close attention to the problem and take action. Mr. ZAR said. One of the best ways to measure VoIP usage is to use line utilization. According to the market research enterprise InfonetiCS provides the data, the new connected PBX line shows that IP is already catching up with the traditional TDM line. The independent survey results predict that the ratio of new IP connections to new TDM connections will increase by nearly 36% from 2004 to 2005. However, the independent findings also show that Asia Pacific service providers spend far less on VoIP security than in the US and Europe. Asia-Pacific service providers are expected to spend less than $33 million on VoIP security in 2005, while all regions outside the region will spend $83.6 million. And the gap is expected to increase further, with a projected spending of around $170 million trillion in the Asia-Pacific region in 2008, with total spending of more than $370 million trillion in all regions outside the region. This gap shows the current Asia-Pacific region's lack of awareness of VoIP security. From a user's point of view, VoIP users face an increasing threat as broadband internet development and richer and more sophisticated applications, including voice and video IP transmissions, continue to emerge. Infonetics announced that there were 900 million infection attempts and 120 billion attempts to invade in the year 2003. "We need to ensure that communication systems and content are not subject to unauthorized access, interruption, latency, or any other cyber attack." "VoIP security solutions are critical, and we call on companies to adopt security solutions to prevent external threats," said Mr. Zar. There are already mature solutions to address these problems without sacrificing the quality of network security or multimedia communications. "SonicWALL Comprehensive VoIP technology can prevent the network from simple denial of service (DoS) attacks, but also to prevent various application-level attacks against the VoIP protocol." 498) this.width=498 ' OnMouseWheel = ' javascript:return big (This) ' src= '/files/uploadimg/20060121/0944200.jpg ' > SonicWALL Guaranteed IP Voice and video security "We call on companies to understand the security threats they face and invite Chinese companies to join VOIPSA. As one of the world's leading countries in global VoIP applications, China is a very important market. We want to develop a more general classification approach and determine the security requirements of the global VoIP network, and we welcome Chinese companies to make their own contribution to these discussions. Zar said. 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