Is it true that IP Communications is less secure than traditional PBX systems?
Security is a primary concern for organizations, large and small, as they add voice onto their IP infrastructures. Security is an important issue – whether or not you are running voice on your data network. But the real myth is that traditional key / pbx systems and hybrid systems are more secure than end-to-end IP Communications solutions. Everyone is familiar with how a traditional digital PBX is put together. With these systems, you have to protect against toll fraud, masquerading, and war dialing. And with traditional systems, unauthorized access or eavesdropping can often be accomplished with a simple pair of alligator clips. In todays business communications world, the threats for IP telephony are much the same as with TDM PBXs preventing unauthorized use or access to telephony resources and protecting against DoS (denial of service) attacks but take a somewhat different form. Fortunately, the same principles, tools, and techniques used to protect data networks apply to voice, wh
