Australian Information Security Management Conference
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia
Abstract
Voice over IP (VoIP) telephony is becoming widespread in use, and is often integrated into computer networks. Because of this, malicious software threatens VoIP systems in the same way that traditional computer systems have been attacked by viruses, worms, and other automated agents. VoIP networks are a challenge to secure against such malware as much of the network intelligence is focused on the edge devices and access environment. This paper describes the design and implementation of a novel VoIP security architecture in which evaluation of, and mitigation against, malicious traffic is demonstrated by the use of virtual machines to emulate vulnerable clients and servers through the use of apparent attack vectors. This new architecture, which is part of an ongoing research project, establishes interaction between the VoIP backend and the end users, thus providing information about ongoing and unknown attacks to users.
DOI
10.4225/75/57b52563cd8b0
Comments
8th Australian Information Security Management Conference, Edith Cowan University, Perth Western Australia, 30th November 2010