Digital Common Sense

It’s time to start planning for the Internet Telephony Expo West. This year the event will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center from September 10th through 12th,

What is INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO?

ITEXPO is the event with an educational program that teaches enterprises, SMBs, and Government Agencies how to select and deploy IP-based voice, video, fax, and unified communications. It’s where service providers learn how to profitably roll out services their subscribers are clamoring for. The vibrant Exhibit Hall features solutions for enterprises, SMBs, government and service providers. ITEXPO is where buyers, sellers, resellers, and manufacturers meet to forge relationships and close deals.

I’ll be there again this year. I’m working with my friends and colleagues at TMCnet and at this point I’m planning on moderating these two panel discussions.

DATE: 9/10/07, TIME: 1:30-2:15pm, TRACK: Unified Communications
UC-05 “Extending Security to the U.C. User Community”
As enterprises increasingly deploy UC, they find themselves under increasing pressure to extend networks beyond trusted domains, in order to enable soft clients, WiFi/dual-mode phones, remote IP phones, and Web phones that extend unified communications beyond the enterprise main office. With users less confined to headquarters, enterprise networks are becoming increasingly complex and susceptible to security breaches. This presentation will examine a number of common threats including reconnaissance, Denial of Service (DoS)/Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), Stealth DoS, spoofing and VoIP spam, in order to explore the best practices methods to secure all VoIP, IM and other IP communication applications from threats that endanger the continued exchange of time-critical, business-sensitive information.

Participating Companies
KoolSpan
Sipera Systems
Borderware

DATE: 9/11/07, TIME: 1:30-2:15pm, TRACK: Service Provider
SP-07 “Introduction to Security”
Today’s enterprise networks are expected to deliver an increasing amount mission-critical communication applications such as voice, video, data and mobility while at the same time avoiding a negative impact on network optimization. Enterprises demand increased productivity and cost savings, so as more applications run on the LAN and WAN, the stakes get higher. Security challenges from privacy to encryption, to denial of service attack protection become extremely complex. Businesses also demand that their IP communication services be of the same high quality and reliability as their non-IP counterparts. As a result, aspects such as call quality assurance, network and cost optimization, and delivering services through NATs/firewalls become increasingly important for the underlying network.

While high-profile VoIP security breaches and attacks are currently rare (or, at least, rarely reported), there is a strong focus on VoIP security of late. This session will give an overview of current VoIP threats and focus on the business challenges to delivering a satisfying user experience over enterprise networks and explore the technical solutions available to meet those challenges.

Participating Companies
Acme Packet
Covergence
Verisign

Drop me a line if you plan on being at the Expo. I plan on being there for the entire event. I’ll be doing sessions, lots of interview briefings and podcasts, and I’d love to meet and chat while we’re there.

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Filed by Ken at 11:38 am under Unified Communications, VoIP/Unified Communications