This month on the blog, we are focusing on the issue of cybersecurity. As we’re all too aware, the threat landscape is changing rapidly and with emerging technologies being adopted by both public and private sector, security needs to be at the forefront of everyone’s mind. So we sat down with the practice directors at Iron Bow to ask them how cybersecurity impacts their area of technological expertise. In this installment Josh Finke, Director of Iron Bow’s Collaboration and Networking Practices provides his thoughts.
Cybersecurity is at the forefront of everyone’s minds, but when it comes to communication technologies and the ability to empower a workforce through developments such as telework, questions begin to surface. Often, the question of how to secure voice and video communications is not asked, or at least not prioritized, when a company evaluates how to protect its assets through the use of cybersecurity measures.
The bottom line savings associated with real-time HD video communication is a top benefit for both the public and private sector. However, while the cost savings are easy to see, the security risk is often unseen, or at least not acknowledged. The amount of IP (intellectual property) and confidential information that can be passed over remote voice and video connections is staggering.
For this reason alone, it is imperative that proper cybersecurity measures, products and services are utilized to maintain the same integrity expected in a private building as that of remote connections to support a distributed workforce. Iron Bow focuses on these measures and continuously leverages our expertise in collaborative solutions to secure communications through the use of innovative technology solutions. Voice and video encryption, edge border controllers, secure gateways and certificate-based authentication are just some of the methods employed in the secure communications space.
With this in mind, does your environment use voice and video in a completely secure manner, or are you able to know for sure?
The best method to make sure that your collaboration network is secure is to have a company, like Iron Bow, perform a vulnerability assessment on your infrastructure. If you’re not quite ready to take that step, allow us to share some best practices and recommendations with you to make sure security isn’t the topic of a “crisis” meeting and is, instead, the focus of a preemptive planning meeting to protect what’s critical to you and your environment.