Enterprise Communications Featured Article

What do utility companies, emergency service providers, financial and healthcare institutions, and corporate enterprises all have in common? They all handle sensitive, confidential information that need to be protected from the prying eyes of both internal and external cyber attacks. But keeping enterprise communication networks safe is no easy task.

For large organizations, it’s especially crucial to ensure that certain information stays out of the wrong hands and is protected from unforeseen threats. With just about everything going digital these days, more of this information is being housed virtually, which means that IP network protection has never been more important.

While companies are working hard to integrate more comprehensive security measures, many are now faced with the additional challenge of having to move to an all-packet network—as major network service providers are enacting “end-of-life” plans for circuit-based networks. Circuit-to-packet converters allow companies to retain much of their legacy circuit equipment and connect it to the packet network in a way that is less disruptive and saves money. Yet this conversion of circuits to packets can create new security issues. Many consider circuit networks to be less vulnerable than packet networks, and it can be costly to encrypt redundant packet connections from multiple data centers.

Responding to this two-pronged issue faced by many enterprises, Engage Communication, a provider of specialized solutions that connect, protect, and secure communication networks, this week announced the integration of powerful AES encryption into its IP-Tube family of circuit-to-packet converters, resulting in a highly secure Black-Tube product line. This new line will offer protection to a wide range of organizations looking to beef up their security by encrypting data, voice and video.

“Providing both encryption and circuit-to-packet solutions for over a decade, along with over twenty-five years of serving our customers, puts us in a unique position to understand the pain points associated with securely migrating to packet networks,” said Mark Doyle, president and CEO of Engage.

Enterprise communications technologies are becoming more sophisticated every day, and it’s important for companies to remember that as systems evolve and upgrade, so too must their security measures.