Trends and Spending Plans For Security Appliances: Are We Ready For VoIP?DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c25006) has announced the addition of Enterprise Networks: Trends and Spending Plans for Security Appliances Security appliances protect computer networks from unwanted data traffic, intruders, email spam, enforce policies, and may also be used to create and manage VPNs. There are a number of types of security appliances. : Are We Ready for VoIP? to their offering. Voice over Internet Protocol See Internet and TCP/IP. (networking) Internet Protocol - (IP) The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. (VoIP) transforms voice communications into another application on an Internet Protocol (IP) network. Unfortunately, with VoIP an organization also inherits all the risks of a data network, including worms and viruses, Denial of Service A condition in which a system can no longer respond to normal requests. See denial of service attack. (DoS) attacks, spam, and even phishing Pronounced "fishing," it is a scam to steal valuable information such as credit card and social security numbers, user IDs and passwords. Also known as "brand spoofing," an official-looking e-mail is sent to potential victims pretending to be from their ISP, bank or retail establishment. . Furthermore, traditional firewall technologies can complicate several aspects of VoIP, most notably dynamic port trafficking and Network Address Translation (NAT (Network Address Translation) An IETF standard that allows an organization to present itself to the Internet with far fewer IP addresses than there are nodes on its internal network. ) transversal. Security product vendors are adding functions that address voice applications in their products, but as history has shown, security typically lags behind advances in technology. To assess the impact of VoIP in the security appliance market, an end-user survey has been conducted to discover trends in security product usage and plans for future purchases. In addition to the results of the survey, the report also includes vendors' market shares and a five-year forecast for security appliances. Companies featured in the report: -- Check Point -- Cisco -- CyberGuard -- Juniper Networks Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) is an information technology company based in Sunnyvale, California and founded in 1996. The company designs and sells Internet Protocol network products and services. -- McAfee -- Nokia -- SonicWALL -- Symantec -- WatchGuard For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c25006 |
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