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SecureLogix' ETM System Version 5.0.1 Supports VoIP Protocol
By TED GLANZER
TMCnet Communications and Broadband Columnist
The ETM System is designed, essentially, to act as a bodyguard for enterprise telecom and data networks, protecting them from a wide range of telephony threats such as denial-of-service, toll fraud, service abuse, harassing calls, information theft, fax and VoIP spam, and other unauthorized phone traffic.
Additionally, the voice usage and performance management applications reduce phone bills and other voice network operational costs, according to a news release.
The H. 323 protocol support is the latest addition to the ETM System that also supports SIP, T1-CAS, ISDN-PRI and analog telephony traffic.
"The ETM System provides an integrated toolkit to remotely secure critical voice systems, ensure near-constant dial tone availability, monitor call quality and service performance, and audit voice network usage and utilization throughout all phases of convergence," said Kirk Vaughn, SecureLogix director of product management, in a prepared statement.
Additionally, ETM System 5.0.1 provides enterprises with the ability to track and secure VoIP tie-ins, thereby eliminating what the news release calls a "longstanding blind spot."
"SecureLogix is committed to helping organizations secure and manage all of their voice systems and services via one unified console, no matter what mix of legacy and/or VoIP switching systems they own," said Kirk Vaughn, SecureLogix director of product management, in a statement.
Today's announcement, which was made at an industry conference, comes on the heels of SecureLogix' recent customer win, in which Tampa Electric Co. secured its telephone network with the purchase and deployment of the San Antonio-based company's ETM System.
According to the Aug. 22 news release, TEC became interested in the ETM System after several voice security issues were identified, which included employees using "desktop modems to connect to the Internet, thereby bypassing corporate firewall protections and exposing the data network to unauthorized access over company phone lines."
Officials at TEC extolled the virtues of the ETM System.
"The ETM System provides the tools we need to better protect our critical infrastructure from phone line attack abuse," said Dan Flower, TEC's manager of telecommunications engineering, in a prepared statement.
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Ted Glanzer is assistant editor for TMCnet. For more articles by Ted Glanzer, please visit:
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