How business VoIP providers can help

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ost VoIP traffic still goes across the net unencrypted. Anyone with the appropriate packet-sniffing setup can listen in to those calls. Spying on phone calls is a serious security issue in itself, but the information gleaned from monitoring calls can then be used in other damaging ways. Hackers can potentially assume the canada telegram identity of a caller and use the information in order to extract confidential personal, financial or business information from a third party. If a thief spoofs your phone numbers to take credit card payments from your customers, who will get the blame?

A hacker with access into a VoIP system can cause a host of problems, from making free calls at your expense to corrupting stored messages or simply swapping phone numbers around to cause chaos. Activists or blackmailers can launch denial of service attacks by inserting a torrent of invalid packets that take the VoIP server offline, leaving your business no means of operating at all.


None of the risks to which VoIP exposes a business or network are technically new. VoIP is carried as a form of digital data and therefore suffers the same risks and benefits from the same precautions as previous forms of digital data. Firewalls, anti-viral and anti-malware security suites and network monitoring (for example an IPS system) will all help to make your network safer for VoIP as they already do for emails, applications and browsing. However, there are many businesses that in the past had few reasons to worr