VOIP Security Alliance elects board of directors, announces projects, and issues call for participation
March 28, 2005
AUSTIN, Texas -- The Voice over IP Security Alliance (VOIPSA), http://www.voipsa.org/ , today announced its newly elected board of directors as well as its short-term projects to develop a threat taxonomy and document security requirements for VoIP networks. VOIPSA is an open group with the purpose of improving the public awareness of issues and best practices for security and privacy of Voice over IP, and is inviting participation in the new projects.
Membership in the VOIPSA technical board of advisors has more than doubled since its initial launch February 7 to over 50 member organizations. Membership is open to all, and subject to the approval of the Board of Directors. New members include: Acme Packet; Agilent Technologies; Arbor Networks; Bell Canada; BorderWare Technologies; Cox Communications; Extreme Networks; Foundstone Professional Services, a division of McAfee, Inc.; InfraVAST; MCI; Miercom; Mitel; PricewaterhouseCoopers; Samsung Telecommunications America; SonicWALL; Sprint; Telcordia and VeriSign.
VOIPSA projects are managed using a collaborative, consensus-based process where leadership arises from the skills and contributions of individual participants. The short-term projects for developing a threat taxonomy and defining security requirements will feed into the newly formed committees. The official call for participation in these two near term projects is available at http://www.voipsa.org/projects.html . The new committees are:
* Security Requirements
This committee is tasked with defining security requirements across the wide spectrum of VoIP deployments and use cases including individual VoIP building blocks, supporting security technology components, architecture and network design, network management, and end point access and authentication to name a few.
* Best Practices
This committee is tasked with developing best practice guidelines and tools in satisfying security requirements for VoIP component and network configuration, deployment, and security management processes.
* Testing
This committee is tasked with developing methodologies and tool frameworks around testing the security posture of VoIP components, infrastructure, and related support security technologies.
* Security Research
This committee will drive the current state of security research around VoIP infrastructure weaknesses, VoIP protocol implementation vulnerabilities, and emerging VoIP application attacks.
* Education and Community Outreach
This committee is tasked with refining VOIPSA's message to the industry and public at large. It will manage the web portal, crafting content that raises public awareness of VoIP security and threats as well as positioning VOIPSA at relevant conferences and VOIPSA specific events.
In addition to forming committees and short-term projects at the March VOIPSA meeting, members were elected to the 2005-2006 board of directors:
Chairman
David Endler, TippingPointTreasurer
Anne L. Coulombe, Enterasys NetworksSecretary and Education/Outreach Chair
Jonathan Zar, SonicWALLBest Practices Committee Chair
Jeffrey Stutzman, PricewaterhouseCoopersSecurity Requirements Committee Chair
Andrew Graydon, BorderWare TechnologiesSecurity Research Committee Chair
Ofir Arkin, InsightixTesting Committee Chair
Brian Tolly, Spirent Communications
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