VoIP and SIP Vulnerability and Security Workshops

The Workshops are aimed at end users, system integrators, service providers, resellers and any organisation looking to deploy and expand VoIP, Unified Communications and other SIP based communications.

Who should attend: Telecoms and IT Managers, Risk and Compliance officers, Auditors with responsibility for Telecoms risk, engineers and consultants responsible for designing and maintaining VoIP infrastructures

What will you learn: The delegates are often concerned with understanding the scope and impact of VoIP Security threats such as call flooding, call monitoring, caller ID spoofing and call disruption. Utilising secure Data networks for Voice – without compromising security. Including all their users on a VoIP network – utilising insecure public internet connections and trying to get PBX systems inter-connected and working with to SIP trunks

Workshop location: SIP Services Europe, Heathrow Boulevard 4, 280 Bath Road, West Drayton UB7 0DQ. The office can be found just north of the A4, Bath Road, Close to Heathrow Airport.

Dates: Thursday 1st July 2010 and Thursday 29th July

Agenda: This runs from 0930 through to 1630, with a couple of breaks and 1 hour for lunch; there is time for further discussion at the end.

Welcome and Introduction: Structure of the Day; topics to be covered; Opening questions.
Voice over Internet – VoIP: survey of VoIP protocols; industry standards based; proprietary.
VoIP, SIP, Unified Communications applications: voice; video; instant messaging; presence.
Security Threats: categories of Network Level; Application; Content and Media.
SIP Trunk: Vulnerability and interoperability issues.
Cellphone, Softphone and WiFi: the latest vulnerabilities.
Demonstrations of the Threats:

  1. call disruption
  2. call eavesdropping
  3. denial of service

Assessing the Threat Impact:
Review of Security Technologies: strengths and limitations.
Defining an effective Security model:
VoIP vulnerability Assessment.
Conclusion and Further Questions, Answers, Discussions.

Workshop fee: £350 per person, with volume discounts for multiple delegates from the same organisation. Workshops are limited to ten persons.
Key Speaker and host is Peter Cox – an acknowledged authority on SIP Security for VoIP and Unified Communications:
Peter Cox has more than 30 years of IT industry experience, and has worked exclusively in the area of TCP/IP connectivity and Internet security since 1990. Peter was a co-founder of Borderware Technologies, where he helped develop and bring to market one of the first commercially successful firewall products for data networks. While at Borderware, Peter focused on application specific security gateways including Email, IM and VoIP technologies. Peter is the author of the SIPtap VOIP eavesdropping demonstration tool, and is a frequent speaker on the subject of VOIP security world-wide.


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