In Situ Security Testing for VoIP
Like many other professions, security has its demons. One of which is how do we ensure that the products that we use are trustworthy, or have “assurance.” An emerging method of validating the assurance that is present in a solution made up of many different products is the concept of In Situ Security Testing. This testing is periodically done on the running solution without interrupting the normal state of operation. This approach is ideally suited to the high availability, real-time environment of VoIP and Multimedia solutions, specifically solutions made up of many individual products and components.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is overseeing the Information Security Automation Program and The …
