Even though VoIP is well on its way to widespread adoption, a
new survey from In-Stat has found that
many businesses haven't yet taken steps to increase security to
take account of these new converged communications systems.
The market research firm says that its survey of US firms found
that even though securing
VoIP infrastructures will become increasingly important as
businesses extend their IP telephony deployments to locations
beyond the LAN, a worrying proportion are not embarking on VoIP
security programs.
"No mechanisms for securing VoIP had more than 50% penetration
across all sizes of business," revealed Victoria Fodale, In-Stat
analyst. "Proactive measures, including periodic security audits
and pre-deployment assessments had low percentages of penetration
too, even among the larger organisations."
The In-Stat survey also found that four-fifths of respondents
deployed some type of VoIP solution in their companies and that
between 2007 and 2010, 168 million
IP PBX lines will be shipped into the business premises in the
US. One by-product is that the usage of collaboration and
conferencing products that leverage VoIP is increasing.