February 2009 - Tony's Blog - Evangelyze Community Site

Reality Check: Can you have UC without VoIP/IP PBX?

Each month TechTarget's SearchUnifiedCommunications site does a podcast on a unified communications topic titled Reality Check. I appeared as a guest on this month's podcast and was interviewed by SearchUnifiedCommunications Associate Editor Elaine...

Published 25 Feb 2009 15:21 by tony

Filed under: VoIP, unified communications, PBX, podcast, Reality Check, IP PBX, searchunifiedcommunications

Microsoft Voice and Unified Communications

Joe Schurman, my friend and the Founder and CEO of Evangelyze Communications , wrote a book which just hit the shelves this week: Microsoft Voice and Unified Communications . The book is an excellent primer on unified communications combined with visionary...

Published 22 Feb 2009 22:39 by tony

Filed under: podcast, Microsoft Voice and Unified Communications, Joe Schurman, Eileen Brown, whatdouc.com, OnMicrosoft

The Future of Unified Communications

On January 18, 2009 I appeared as a guest on the IMI-TechTalk radio show . Tom D'Auria, CEO of Information Methods Incorporated (IMI), and I talked about the future of Unified Communications . I provided a brief overview of what unified communications...

Published 22 Feb 2009 21:54 by tony

Filed under: unified communications, Tom D'Auria, KFNX AM 1100, IMI-TechTalk, Microsoft, software-powered voice, PBX

Microsoft Response Point

On April 27, 2008 I appeared as a guest on the IMI-TechTalk radio show . Tom D'Auria, CEO of Information Methods Incorporated (IMI), and I talked about the Microsoft Response Point phone system. I provided an overview of what Microsoft Response Point...

Published 22 Feb 2009 21:29 by tony

Filed under: unified communications, Tom D'Auria, KFNX AM 1100, IMI-TechTalk, Microsoft, Response Point

Microsoft UC on Hyper-V

On July 27, 2008 I appeared as a guest on the IMI-TechTalk radio show . Tom D'Auria, CEO of Information Methods Incorporated (IMI), and I talked about running a Microsoft Unified Communications environment virtualized on Microsoft Hyper-V . The solution...

Published 22 Feb 2009 17:15 by tony

Filed under: unified communications, Tom D'Auria, KFNX AM 1100, IMI-TechTalk, Microsoft UC on Hyper-V

Microsoft Unified Communications Initiative

On February 10, 2008 I appeared as a guest on the IMI-TechTalk radio show . Tom D'Auria, CEO of Information Methods Incorporated (IMI), and I talked about Microsoft's foray into unified communications and what they bring to this very competitive...

Published 22 Feb 2009 16:46 by tony

Filed under: Tom D'Auria, Microsoft Unified Communications Initiative, KFNX AM 1100, IMI-TechTalk

Locking Down VoIP

Voice networks have always been exposed to certain types of attacks. Data networks have a much larger threat environment to worry about. Converging the two seems to create a whole greater than the sum of its parts in that the merging of voice and data...

Published 22 Feb 2009 15:34 by tony

Filed under: VoIP security, unified communications, unified communications security, VoIP security assessment, security audit

NSA Places a Bounty on Skype

The NSA (National Security Agency) has reportedly made it clear that any company who can unlock Skype encryption so that government agencies and law enforcement organizations can intercept and tap Skype communications may find themselves very wealthy...

Published 16 Feb 2009 20:49 by tony

Filed under: encryption, NSA, peer-to-peer, P2P, Skype

Voice Convergence Saves Money, Increases Risk

With OCS 2007 R2 Microsoft introduced a variety of new features and capabilities. One of the most anxiously anticipated features is the ability to bypass the PBX and do direct SIP-trunking into OCS. There are only a couple of VoIP providers designated...

Published 14 Feb 2009 7:55 by tony

Filed under: VoIP, VoIP security, unified communications, unified communications security, VoIP security assessment, smartsip, sip-trunking

VoIP Service Theft Fugitive Captured

Edward Pena was arrested in Mexico yesterday. Pena was originally charged in 2006 with computer fraud and wire fraud for selling stolen VoIP service . Working with his partner Robert Moore, the two scanned networks to find open or poorly secured VoIP...

Published 11 Feb 2009 14:26 by tony

Filed under: VoIP, VoIP security, vulnerabilities, best practices, VoIP security assessment, threats, theft

IBM Reports Increase in VoIP Vulnerabilities

The most recent IBM X-Force report provides a lot of insight into the state of network security and malware, including some bad news for VoIP (Voice over IP). The report which summarizes IBM's findings from 2008 and illustrates some trends and predictions...

Published 6 Feb 2009 8:36 by tony

Filed under: VoIP, VoIP security, unified communications, unified communications security, vulnerabilities, UC, IBM X-Force report

VoIP Security: The Basics

It is no secret that VoIP is a popular and growing technology. VoIP, and its bigger, more converged, and feature-rich brother, unified communications, represent a significant shift in communications technology and a quantum evolution in how businesses...

Published 5 Feb 2009 13:34 by tony

Filed under: VoIP, VoIP security, toll fraud, unified communications security, vulnerabilities, best practices, mitigation

FaceTime Unveils Updated Security Products for OCS 2007 R2

It seems like we've been in a perpetual holding pattern on Microsoft Forefront for Office Communications Server. I think it was originally slated for mid-2008. Now that we are in Q1 of 2009 it is available in the 3rd Beta incarnation. Forefront Client...

Published 4 Feb 2009 8:16 by tony

Filed under: Forefront Security for Office Communications Server, Forefront Security, FSOCS, unified communications security, IMAuditor, FaceTime, USG, Unified Security Gateway, OCS 2007 R2

Protecting Mobile Devices

One of the largest shifts in security in recent years has been the irrelevance of the network 'perimeter' and the explosion of portable storage and mobile computing devices. As more workers rely on laptop computers they have left the relative...

Published 3 Feb 2009 14:41 by tony

Filed under: VoIP security, unified communications security, blackberry, mobile device, mobile phone, iphone, portable storage

Who Is Responsible for VoIP Security?

With each new revolution in digital communications there seems to come some sort of painful learning curve regarding security. Email, web surfing, and instant messaging have already gone through this evolution. Next up appears to be VoIP. One of the things...

Published 2 Feb 2009 11:49 by tony

Filed under: VoIP, VoIP security, Man-in-the-Middle attack, call redirection attack

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