The Skinny On VoIP Security Problems

Garrett Smith crucifies Red Herring on their brow raising article about VoIP security risks, saying “it mis-represents, mis-informs, and is filled with half-truths.” He ends his post with links to three websites about VoIP security. It reveals to me how much I still have to learn about IP telephony and security, but I have believed some general security claims to be overblown. (Note: I haven’t read the Red Herring piece yet.) Unless I miss my guess, though, there is much from web server security techniques that can be applied to IP communications – not necessarily directly, but in concept. The question is, how much of it is actually being applied behind the scenes? Most articles/ blog posts about security risk verge on the theoretical, not the actual.