VOIP Security Technologist and Thought Leader Mark Collier Launches New Blog at VoiceCon Spring 2006; SecureLogix CTO Creating VOIPsecurityBlog.com to Collect and Discuss Latest Research and Information on Evolving VOIP Threats and Countermeasures

Business Wire, March 8, 2006

SAN ANTONIO & ORLANDO, Fla. -- SecureLogix Corporation announced today that its Chief Technology Officer, Mark Collier, has launched a new blog, which is now online at www.VOIPsecurityBlog.com, devoted to tracking, collecting, and discussing the latest research and information on VOIP security threats and countermeasures. Mr. Collier will announce his blog later today at VoiceCon Spring 2006, during his conference presentation entitled "VOIP Security: Managing Risk."

Mark Collier is CTO of SecureLogix Corporation, an enterprise telephony management and security company. Mr. Collier is responsible for technology research, development, and related intellectual property, including a special focus on VOIP security solutions. In addition to his corporate R&D work, he has completed publicly-funded research into current and future threats to VOIP systems, protocols, and application services.

Mr. Collier is a frequently-quoted author and presenter on the topic of voice and VOIP security, and is currently co-authoring a book on VOIP security for McGraw-Hill's popular "Hacking Exposed" IT security series. He is a regular presenter at industry conferences including VoiceCon, VON, Internet Telephony, IPComm, Avaya's InAAU, and Nortel's INNUA Global Connect. Mr. Collier is a founding member of the VOIP Security Alliance (www.voipsa.com), an industry group focused on VOIP security education.

"With IP as its foundation, it is simply unreasonable to expect VOIP applications and devices to be any more secure than email, instant messaging, web services, or DNS," said Collier. "VOIP attacks are beginning to occur and become documented, but we've not yet seen a large proliferation of attacks. There are two fundamental reasons why. The first is that there simply isn't a large enough mass of deployed VOIP systems for hackers to target. The second reason is that most companies are only deploying VOIP in a limited fashion. Most are completely internal, handset-to-handset deployments, with no external VOIP connections to service provider networks or the public Internet.

"Unfortunately, both of these environmental factors are rapidly changing. As corporations install more IP telephony systems and connect them to public networks, VOIP applications and devices will become an increasingly popular target for hackers and cyber-criminals. As with threats to other authorized communication applications like email, web services, and IM, new threats to VOIP services will continually emerge. As an industry, we spend a lot of time and effort tracking and resolving application-specific threats to email and other communication services. VOIP will be no different. In fact, given the real-time nature of voice services, VOIP attacks may be more damaging and difficult to solve.

"I want this new web forum to be a comfortable place for researchers, analysts, solutions providers, and the public to discuss emerging threats and evolving best practices to counter these attacks."

About SecureLogix

SecureLogix, a Gartner designated "Cool Vendor" and a member of the Deloitte Fast 500, builds first-of-kind solutions that secure enterprise telecom resources from attack and abuse and simplify voice network management. SecureLogix(R) technologies are currently protecting and managing over two million phone lines for small-to-large commercial and government organizations. The company's ETM System is a comprehensive solution that provides performance monitoring, call reporting, and security for enterprise voice networks. The ETM System has been named "Security Product of the Year" and "Most Outstanding Product of the Year" by Network Computing.

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