VOIP Security Alliance elects board of directors, announces projects, and issues call for participation

March 28, 2005

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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, TippingPoint    

  • Treasurer
         Anne L. Coulombe, Enterasys Networks    

  • Secretary and Education/Outreach Chair
         Jonathan Zar, SonicWALL   

  •  Best Practices Committee Chair
         Jeffrey Stutzman, PricewaterhouseCoopers   

  •  Security Requirements Committee Chair
         Andrew Graydon, BorderWare Technologies    

  • Security Research Committee Chair
         Ofir Arkin, Insightix    

  • Testing Committee Chair
         Brian Tolly, Spirent Communications



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