{"id":19421,"date":"2020-10-14T10:41:30","date_gmt":"2020-10-14T08:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maroon-cobra-681026.hostingersite.com\/en\/?p=19421"},"modified":"2023-11-09T10:08:27","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T09:08:27","slug":"security-telephony-ip","status":"publish","type":null,"link":"https:\/\/fonvirtual.com\/en\/blog\/security-telephony-ip\/","title":{"rendered":"Is IP telephony safe?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is normal, when choosing a technology, equipment or telephony for our company, that we ask ourselves a series of questions and that we don’t want to make any mistakes. And the security of IP telephony is a very important question that we are going to analyse today; is it really safe?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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IP telephony or traditional telephony?<\/span><\/h2>\n

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IP telephony works through the Internet and that is why many people are suspicious of its security compared to traditional telephony. But traditional calls are no more difficult to locate or listen to than calls over networks and interconnections. In fact, it is more difficult to spy on a VoIP call because the data is encrypted.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This distrust results from the little information we have access to about the internet and how this type of telephony really works. If voice travels over the internet, then it must travel over a public network. This is the first myth that people fall into. There are free systems that can allow voice to travel over a public network, but if your company chooses IP telephony, a private network will be used for the calls made.<\/strong> A private network is not totally inaccessible, but it is much more secure, as to locate and listen to calls you would need to get administrator access to the network equipment. Having a Virtual Private Network (VPN) means a fairly high level of isolation and security against any external attack.<\/span><\/p>\n

For this reason, an important factor when implementing IP telephony in a company is the training of personnel on security risks<\/strong>. Informing and educating employees to avoid the misuse of this technology can prevent future external attacks.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The security of IP telephony<\/a> presents more benefits compared to traditional telephony, even if there are risks when using it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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The risks of IP telephony<\/span><\/h2>\n

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We will look at some examples of what could be risks when using this technology, and thus analyse the security of IP telephony in greater depth:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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