If you are a small, medium or large company with heavy dependence on Internet routed calls and VoIP networks, to be specific, there are evident threats that your might or might not be aware. Any nonchalance about these threats could cause more harm to disband your entire network and crush your VoIP network completely. Here are some of the common VoIP threats you should know about:
Social Threats
Although different from actual technical threats, social threats hit directly on your company’s confidentiality, integrity and security. The aim of these sort of threats are to discern your intent and hit you where you least expect to be hit. The attackers usually usurp an identity that you trust within your social context and misrepresent you or your company’s identity, misuse your rights, jeopardize your content, etc. Attackers can make inappropriate use of your VoIP network, Internet Messaging windows. Hackers can also deploy false emails can be deployed for phishing.
Say, who did you say was calling?
Misrepresentation is another form of security risk that your VoIP network – and hence your company – is vulnerable to. Misrepresentation involves attackers donning your identity, rights or content and target unsuspecting users to gain information from them. These kinds of attacks usually include picking on information such as caller names, domains, organization details, email addresses. As you can see, we are talking about these potential landmines about here.
That call was a spam
Session initiation doesn’t always have to originate from the original caller (which is your company). Once your information is in your attackers’ hands, they would establish voice calls or video calls to initiate sessions. This kind of spam is also known as telemarketer spam or Spam over IP telephony (SPIT). Think about it, it’s cost effective, easy and highly effective way for spammers to get to you. Since this is all on real time media, the usual anti-web threat and anti-network threat mechanisms. The established way of preventing this threat is to blacklist spammers’ ID. Do you have it in place?
Internet Messaging is a threat too
Internet Messaging threats are as big as email threats. Any stream of unsolicited instant messages with content poised to fish information out of users, porn or any of the other variety of spam is also called as Spam over Instant Messaging (SPIM) that start with ‘invites’ consisting of HTML scripts or text. The more your employees use instant messaging, the more prevalent the threat remains.
Your VoIP network is the backbone your business depends on and the least you can do it about is to be super-paranoid about it. Talk to us if you need to know more but do take action to counter these threats.
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