Security monitoring for Voice over IP
(VoIP) networks has become a matter concern for most companies.
But things have become easier with Q1 Labs’ QRadar module. QRadar has successfully combined network behavior analysis and security event correlation for monitoring across the network protocol, application, and security services layers of a VoIP
network.
QRadar’s VoIP module comes with a range of security event correlation rules, application signatures, and specific VoIP security reports. With all those features, customers will be able to keep an eye on their voice application traffic, correlate events from security devices safeguarding the network, while detecting and reporting on specific threats to VoIP servers and applications.
“In order to correctly monitor and secure VoIP applications, customers need be able to unify their view of the network, the applications on that network, and the security products that defend those applications,” said Tom Turner, Vice President of Marketing for Q1 Labs, in a press release. “QRadar is the only product in the market that can provide that converged view. These new VoIP features further improve the security management and monitoring capabilities for all of our customers and prospects.”
According to the release, the QRadar VoIP module comprises of VoIP Correlation Rules that correlate events taken from multiple VoIP source devices including Call Managers, IP PBXs, and voice gateways. QRadar’s correlation rules detect toll fraud attempts as well as denial of service
conditions against PBXs and other voice control servers.
The “Daily, Weekly and Monthly VoIP-Event Summary Reports” illustrate the number of VoIP associated security and policy events that are being created on a network, an indicator of overall health. On the other hand, “Executive VoIP Reports” explores the activity on a VoIP network.
“We were already using QRadar to monitor and manage the security of our network and applications, which includes Voice over IP,” said Alphonse Edouard, vice president of information technology at Dune Capital Management, in the release. “These additional capabilities will further improve our visibility into our VoIP traffic and the overall preparedness of our network and servers to deal with VoIP-specific threats.”
What’s the number one VoIP conference in terms of attendance? What’s the leading VoIP expo for exhibitors in terms of lead generation? And which VoIP industry event will feature special attractions for service providers, resellers, and the enterprise and SMB market, as well as an overview on the future of IP Telephony? Answer: INTERNET TELEPHONY Conference & EXPO EAST, January 23–26, 2007. See you in sunny Ft. Lauderdale!
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Niladri Sekhar Nath is a contributing writer for TMCnet covering telecommunications, service providers and networking. To see more of his articles, please visit his columnist page.
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