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Sipera Seeks to Bring PCI Compliance to UC

Sipera Systems, a leading Unified Communications (UC) security provider, has formed a partnership with TrustNet to boost the secure handling of credit card data in enterprises that are deploying VoIP and Unified Communications.

Together, Sipera and TrustNet will offer enterprises the guidance and functionality they need to ensure that their VoIP and UC implementations are consistent with security best practices and support their efforts to achieve and maintain PCI DSS compliance.

BCI Chooses Sipera for UC Security

Chile-based Banco de Credito e Inversiones (BCI) has chosen Sipera to secure their unified communications infrastructure. Using Sipera’s IPCS unified communications security appliances provides BCI with real-time unified communications security backed by the research and expertise of Sipera’s VIPER Lab.

Sipera also enables BCI to leverage more cost-effective SIP trunking rather than relying on trunk lines, and allows BCI to deploy unified communications more efficiently and provides quality of service monitoring and reporting that BCI didn’t previously have. You can learn more about Sipera unified communications security appliances and services at Voicecon in Orlando this week. Sipera is at Booth 1500.

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UCSniff Brings Vulnerability Scanning to VoIP

Sipera Viper Labs has developed a new VoIP security tool called UCSniff. UCSniff monitors VoIP communications and identifies weaknesses or holes in VoIP security which could potentially be exploited by an attacker. As this Dark Reading article points out, the tool will not identify whether an attack has occurred, or if there are any active exploits. It is a penetration testing and vulnerability scanning tool which will help VoIP and security administrators proactively scan their VoIP networks to verify integrity or identify areas that need to be secured.

Is Your UC Secure?

In order to provide comprehensive security, all traffic going into and out of the network should be monitored. Security applications and appliances have to scan and monitor for malware, data leakage, and other threats. With Unified Communications, the threat landscape is a little bigger and a little different. It is as important as ever to monitor traffic and maintain security, but unified communications demand higher bandwidth and QoS (Quality of Service) requirements than standard data traffic, making it an even greater challenge to secure and protect a UC environment while maintaining voice quality. Join Jason Ostrom, Director of the Sipera VIPER Lab, and Eric Winsborrow, Chief Marketing Officer for Sipera Systems and moderator, Erik Lanask, Group Managing Editor at Technology Marketing Corporation, on Tuesday, July 22 at 11:00am ET/ 8:00am PT.

Sipera Enhances UC Security

In the Press Release from Sipera, it explains that “For enterprises utilizing SIP trunks to connect to their service providers, Sipera not only offers comprehensive security for these SIP trunks, but also addresses key deployment issues by offering additional Session Border Control (SBC) functionality.” SIP trunking is one of the hot trends within the hot trends of VoIP and Unified Communications. Updates to the Sipera IPCS appliance include:

• Certificate provisioning proxy for improved access control
• HTTP/TFTP proxy for web services and configuration, and LDAP proxy for
  directory services, for faster and easier deployment of remote phones
• TLS/SRTP proxy for encryption, further ensuring communications privacy
• Network, device, user, domain, and time of day granular policy
  enforcement.