September 19, 2005
Spam in VoIP
According to the Yankee Group, VoIP has chalked up an impressive growth record till date. Results of a research by In-Stat show that more than 40% of the larger companies use VoIP. However, this growth is bound to attract the menace of Spam and other security issues. This could actually lead to loss in productivity and expenditure in security tools and their maintenance. Spam in a VoIP scenario is going to occur in the shape of voice messages that will have to be treated in real-time in order to prevent a company’s voice mail system from being flooded with spam messages.
Pierce Reid, V.P Marketing, Oovia, opines that it will take time for VoIP spam to really come to the public’s notice. A more serious threat for the more than 600,000 VoIP phone users is a DoS situation that could occur as a result of too much spam. One way of recognizing VoIP spam is that packets of machine generated messages do not exhibit the randomness associated with human VoIP messages.
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