Fortunately, there is much that information security professionals can do to ensure that the security features of VoIP phone systems are protected by intelligent usage and strong protocols on the user side, making VoIP security a shared responsibility and goal at all times.
Enforce a strong password policy, requiring all users to employ unique, strong passwords at all times, and store them only within an acceptably robust password manager specified by the IT security team. It used to be recommended that passwords were regularly changed, but this often led to compromises in other areas — so it’s more important that passwords are complex and long, and never reused.
Right now there’s a big conversation going on in every organization and team, in video-conferences and meeting rooms around the world: How do we get people back to the office, and move forward in the ‘new normality’ safely and securely?
Of course, they’re talking about physical and biological safety, in a changed world. But the implications of all of that for spacing and distancing, mean an urgent need to consider cyber-safety as well. It’s not only people who must be kept safe: personal data, intellectual property, and technology assets and devices, all face different (and in some cases new) threats.
With so much upheaval in the past year or so it’s easy to lose track of some of the important changes, and the way we use digital assets and data is just one thing which has been forever transformed. A lot of this might be invisible to the everyday user, but InfoSec professionals are having to address a lot of new worries, and figure out how to solve new challenges, to support a work-from-anywhere hybrid future.Make sure that remote or off-site users in particular are connecting securely, using VPNs, and encrypting their connections appropriately.
Manage access intelligently. Within the Ringover dashboard it is the work of a moment to activate new inbound and outbound numbers, for example to permit local presence in a new campaign. But you should review usage and deactivate services no longer required on a regular basis, to save on subscriptions as well as increasing security.
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