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Alliance Asks Congress To Consider VoIP Vulnerabilities In Updated Telecom Act

Matthew Freidman writes in Networking Pipeline that:

The Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA) has called on Congress to include security recommendations related to securing voice over IP (VoIP) technologies as it reviews the 1996 Telecommunications Act.

According to the CSIA, the pervasiveness of IP-based communication and networking technologies, particularly VoIP, has made the task of protecting security and integrity of the Internet a national priority. The report notes that voice applications over the Internet are vulnerable to many of the same threats as data traffic, including denial of service attacks, worms and viruses. Such threats, the CSIA says, could cripple the information technology dependent critical infrastructure, disable VoIP-based emergency systems and weaken the national response capability in the event of attack.

posted by Fergie @ 5/11/2005 10:23:00 AM