KNOW HOW
How does UC in the cloud
impact your network security?
Cyber attacks using the SIP protocol are growing and can cost companies hundreds of thousands
of dollars. In fact, toll fraud is even higher than credit card fraud, with an estimated global fraud loss
of $38B in 2015 per CFCA, says Kevin Baynes, UK and Ireland country manager at Sonus.
B
ut there are far wider
reaching and more
serious vulnerabilities
than toll fraud, which
quietly monitor and
trawl a network from inside the
trusted domain without a firewall
even being aware.
42 | September 2017
Traditionally, network security
has centred around data:
Corporate data, customer data,
credit card data. Organisations
collectively spend billions each
year protecting their data through
firewalls and other data-centric
security devices. But what if they
have left another door wide-open
– one that is leading to some of
the fastest growing and most
misunderstood threats enterprises
face today?
A s UC a p p l i c at i o n s s uch as
vo i c e , v i d e o , m e ssa g i n g, an d f i le
sh a r i n g sta r t to b e t ran s mi tted