[VOIPSEC] mngd sec service for VoIP

[Bill Flanagan]

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>Today's Topics:
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>   1. Re: VoIP Managed Security Services (dan_york at Mitel.com)
>   2. Re: VoIP Managed Security Services (Savage, John C (John))
>   3. Re: VoIP Managed Security Services (Smith, Donald)
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>Message: 1
>Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:55:54 -0400
>From: dan_york at Mitel.com
>Subject: Re: [VOIPSEC] VoIP Managed Security Services
>To: Mark Teicher <mht3 at earthlink.net>
>Cc: voipsec at voipsa.org
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>Mark
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>>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 ??
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>I guess my question back to you would be - what are you looking for in a
>"VoIP managed security service" that is different from what a regular
>"Managed Security Service Provider" (MSSP) would provide?
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>Or I guess another question is - was your question prompted by seeing
>this term being used somewhere?
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>Typically, most MSSPs seem to offer most or all of:
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>  - managed firewall configuration, policies, etc.
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The catch is that the firewall itself needs to read the signaling 
traffic to know which ports have been assigned to active connections, 
and also to know when the connection is dropped, so "pin holes" can be 
opened in the firewall only as needed.  Not every firewall can do that.

Bill

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