Sonus Networks, Inc (NASDAQ:SONS), which happens to be one of the industry leaders when it comes to securing cloud and real-time communications has moved ahead to make the much awaited for announcement. The news about TMC, which is indeed an integrated media provider, naming Sonus as one of the top recipients of the 2016 Network Security Excellence Award has lately hit the hit headlines.
Real-time communication networks encompassing voice, Unified Communications, video, WebRTC, SS7, Voice over LTE and Voice over WiFi continue to advance in a rapid manner. As a matter of fact, it would be in order to state that the above named technologies have played a significant role in transforming how the various organizations generally communicate.
However, it is of paramount importance to actually stipulate the fact that they in a major way expose enterprises as well as providers to some new and severe security threats. The top provider was excited about having gotten the award and it of course comes as a reflection of its rich heritage for the detection as well as the mitigation of the real-time communication service vulnerabilities and it is crucial to point out that its Session Border Controller (SBC) portfolio plays quite some significant role.
The changing times are as a matter of fact calling for different approaches in resolving matters. Solutions with the capacity to serve users with top security capabilities such as network topology hiding, network policers and session encryption are being embraced in a great way in the current times.
Bad practices such as Denial of Service (DoS) and Telephony Denial of Service (TDoS), network protection against data exfiltration, network penetration, toll fraud as well as the other SIP-based attacks have in the past negatively impacted service providers and enterprises as well. The above mentioned functions with the passage of time have slowly brought about changes to the advantage of the different enterprises and businesses and from the records; many of them have received a major lift.
One thing is undeniable-cyber security has lately been on the rise! It is a good thing that Sonus has risen to the occasion and as a result the customers have been able to enjoy protection. The new collaboration asides from scaling higher the trust level in communications will also go ahead to strengthen the overall security posture of the enterprise networks.
