BorderWare Joins VOIP Security Alliance.

BOSTON & TORONTO -- Chairs Committee on Security Requirements

BorderWare Technologies Inc. today announced that it has joined VOIPSA, the industry's first Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) Security Alliance. VOIPSA is an open group of leading VoIP vendors, providers, security researchers, and thought leaders with the purpose of improving the public awareness of issues and best practices for security and privacy of Voice over IP.

BorderWare will chair the Security Requirements committee within VOIPSA. The group is tasked with defining security requirements across the wide spectrum of the VoIP ecosystem including individual VoIP building blocks, supporting security technology components (SBCs, Firewalls, etc.), architecture and network design (NAT, VPN, port security, etc.), network management, and end point access and authentication.

VoIP Adoption Accelerating, Security A Concern

By all accounts, the VoIP industry is on a global growth path. In-Stat/MDR reported that the overall percentage of companies using VoIP communications quadrupled in 2004, growing from 3 percent in 2003 to 12 percent in 2004, and showed substantially higher growth rates among larger enterprises. In-Stat/MDR forecasted that by the end of 2004, VoIP penetration would reach 34 percent among mid-sized businesses, and 43 percent in large enterprises.

Only recently, however, have industry vendors and researchers begun to raise concerns that VoIP and its underlying communications protocols such as SIP (Session Initiation Protocol), are vulnerable to a number of exploits such as faked Caller ID. A recent report from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) advises federal government agencies to implement appropriate security measures when deploying voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telecommunications technologies.

"As a leader in securing Internet communications, BorderWare welcomes the opportunity to work with the industry to identify and establish security requirements that will enable the widespread adoption of VoIP," said John Alsop, Chairman, BorderWare.

About Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

Like HTTP and SMTP, SIP has been endorsed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and is emerging as the dominant session protocol for real-time Internet (IP) communications applications including instant messaging (IM), VoIP, and video conferencing. Industry players from carriers to equipment makers are all moving to SIP because it provides the convenience and benefit of ensuring that hardware equipment and applications from different vendors will work in tandem. SIP, however, is also susceptible to similar types of threats and exploits that plague the Web and email. BorderWare has developed the industry's first SIP-specific firewall, SIPassure, which is designed to make SIP communications safe.

About VOIPSA

The VoIP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) is the first and only group solely and holistically dedicated to VoIP security research and education backed by a wide spectrum of organizations represented by universities, security researchers, VoIP vendors, thought leaders and VoIP providers. The mission of VOIPSA is to improve the public awareness of issues and best practices for security and privacy of Voice over IP. VOIPSA is an open group that aims to help organizations discover, understand and avoid VoIP security risks through discussion lists, white papers, sponsorship of VoIP security research projects, and the development of tools and methodologies for public use. For more information, please visit www.voipsa.org.

About BorderWare

BorderWare Technologies makes Internet communications safe. The company's perimeter and "application-specific" firewalls for email and SIP enable customers to mitigate the risks and threats associated with Internet communications. Founded in 1994, BorderWare has developed partnerships and affiliations with some of the industry's most prominent companies including 3Com Corp., Cisco Systems, F5 Networks, Kaspersky Labs, Research In Motion (RIM), RSA Security, Sun Microsystems and Symantec. More than 7500 customers in 65 countries have selected BorderWare's solutions for their superior security, scalability, business continuity and lower total cost of ownership. For more information visit http://www.borderware.com or call 1-877-814-7900.

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