[VOIPSEC] FYI - VoIP security overview presentation now online - with audio and slides

[dan_york at Mitel.com]

VOIPSEC members,

If you are relatively new to the world of VoIP security and looking for a 
general overview of the issues, threats, best practices, etc., I recently 
posted as part of the Blue Box podcast feed the audio recording and slides 
from a presentation I did a few weeks ago at the "IP Telephony for 
Government" conference in Arlington, VA .  This conference was sponsored 
by the Homeland Defense Journal and IT*Training magazine and had about 100 
participants from various US federal government, state government and 
military agencies.  There were a number of speakers on various issues 
related to VoIP and I was there to give an overview of the security 
issues. You can visit:

  http://www.blueboxpodcast.com/2006/05/blue_box_podcas.html

to download the MP3 file and/or the PDF of the slides.  You can also 
simply click the "Play" button and listen directly from the web page (as 
long as you then don't navigate away from the web page in your browser). 
Or you can simply download the MP3 file and play it on your PC in whatever 
music program you use (or on whatever portable MP3 player you use).

If you are already a subscriber to the Blue Box podcast feed, you don't 
have to do anything as you already received the MP3 file for this 
presentation last week.

As a lifelong trainer/instructor/educator, I'm definitely always open to 
feedback so feel free to directly send me feedback if you have comments on 
what I presented or how I presented it.

Enjoy,
Dan

P.S. As a side note, if any of you are also speaking on VoIP security 
issues[1] in the months ahead at a conference or in a web seminar, please 
know that Jonathan and I are always open to including presentations like 
this as part of the podcast feed.  All you need to do is record your 
presentation (and I'm happy to share suggestions about how to do this 
based on my own experiences) and then send me the MP3 file and ideally 
also your slides.  (You of course also need to ensure that the conference 
organizers have no issue with you doing so as some conferences sell the 
recordings or make them available only to participants as part of what 
they get for attending.)  We are glad to offer recordings like this as 
they add to the general pool of knowledge around VoIP security issues. 
There is also certainly value in hearing how different speakers present 
the issues.  If you are speaking in the months ahead and are interested in 
offering the recording, please drop me an email at 
"blueboxpodcast at gmail.com" and we can communicate about details.

[1] One important caveat: the presentation needs to be a vendor-neutral 
presentation, i.e. we are not interested in essentially running 
commercials for a specific vendor.

-- 
Dan York, CISSP
Dir of IP Technology, Office of the CTO
Mitel Corp.     http://www.mitel.com
dan_york at mitel.com +1-613-592-2122
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secure communication