[VOIPSEC] VoIP Managed Security Services

[Smith, Donald]

Security through obscurity WORKS against some worms and other tools:)
Donald.Smith at qwest.com giac 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Voipsec-bounces at voipsa.org 
> [mailto:Voipsec-bounces at voipsa.org] On Behalf Of Savage, John C (John)
> Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 11:11 AM
> To: 'Mark Teicher'; voipsec at voipsa.org
> Subject: Re: [VOIPSEC] VoIP Managed Security Services
> 
> How would VoIP traffic differ from any other public or 
> private IP traffic
> from the service providers perspective?

This one is fairly odvious but "Real time protocols" have a stricter
requirement for low latency and jitter then other applications.

> 
> For site to site connections the simplest route is still 
> going to be sending
> the packets across whatever encapsulation method that's used 
> for other IP
> traffic.  Priority would (or should) be given to voice 
> streams vs. data, but
> beyond that?

While many encryption network elements now support QOS on inbound and/or
outbound interfaces NONE that I know of are prioritizing the traffic
THRU the crypo engine. 

> 
> For external connections that will likely cross provider 
> boundaries, VoIP
> capable devices would be needed, but it seems that it's still just IP
> traffic and needs to be secured in much the same fashion as any other
> traffic.
Agreed.

> 
> I'd assume in the future as the telephony and data services groups in
> corporations merge this will change.  But it will be more 
> from a QoS and
> traffic optimization perspective than anything else.
Agreed.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Voipsec-bounces at voipsa.org [mailto:Voipsec-bounces at voipsa.org]On
> Behalf Of Mark Teicher
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2006 4:05 PM
> To: voipsec at voipsa.org
> Subject: [VOIPSEC] VoIP Managed Security Services
> 
> 
> After doing some prelim research on the topic, it appears 
> that many of the
> known managed security service players do not offer VoIP 
> managed security
> services.  Is there a difference between VoIP managed 
> security services and
> IDS/IPS, Firewall, VPN managed security services ? Who are the market
> leaders in this space ?? Is it really a space ?? Or is it 
> just another word,
> for managed device support or remote access support via IP 
> versus modem
> based support ??
> 
> /thanks
> 
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