Cyberthreats and VoIP Security: Is VoIP Secure?

Cyberthreats and VoIP Security: Is VoIP Secure?
Cyberthreats come in all shapes and sizes, whether they are individuals working to defraud someone on a small scale or state-sponsored cyberwarfare divisions that intend to disrupt life across the Western world. MSPs fulfil a vital role in securing businesses against these threats, especially when it comes to communications. After all, if your VoIP security is compromised, it means attackers have access to all your communications.

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What Is VoIP? Why This New Tool May Transform Businesses

VoIP may transform your business procedures

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is all but essential for modern business communications. Still, many professionals likely wonder “what is VoIP?” — whether they mean what VoIP stands for or what older technologies it replaces.

To address these questions and more, let’s take a deep dive into info on VoIP phone systems. We’ll also help you consider which version of voice over IP will best benefit your business.

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Two-Factor Authentication (2FA): what is 2FA and how it can stop someone from stealing your identity

Everything you need to know about Two-Factor Authentication and why using it for UC&C services

Push Notification

Today we use online services to shop, to collaborate, to meet new people and to keep in touch with friends. Many of these online services contain and store private information, such as user personal data, contact lists, credit card credentials, patient information etc.

However we all know that breaking into the system, in many cases, is just a question of time. Your password can be stolen or hacked every now and then.

Someone can pretend they are you and steal your identity.

In fact it has already happened to many of us at least once. What can we do to protect ourselves and our sensitive data?
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What is Push Notification for Mobile Apps?

Push Notification as an integral part of UC&C system

Push Notification

Push notification is a message that pops up on the screen of your mobile device when you are not using the app. In fact we’ve been using push notifications for quite a long time. An example could be a notification coming from the airlines reminding you to check in for your flight or a calendar event reminder.

Apple was the first one to introduce Push notifications in 2009, Google implemented them in 2010. Today push notifications are becoming even more powerful, and we will see why in the next chapter.

Push notification vs Polling and other techniques

In the past many VoIP apps have been using polling techniques, in which the client had to poll the server from time to time to check if there are any updates. They were not actually real-time–you received a notification not at the very time it arrived, but after the app has “polled” the server. Other VoIP apps were running in the background all the time so that the user could receive an update, over-consuming the battery.
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