VoIP Security – Challenges and Solutions

GlobeCom 2004 Workshop

(www.globecom2004.org)

Dallas, Texas

December 3, 2004

Workshop Chairs: Ram Dantu and Sujeet Shenoi

(rdantu@unt.edu, sujeet@utulsa.edu)

Keynote Speaker: Colonel Gibson, Program Director, DARPA

Protecting the Telecom Infrastructure

Keynote Speaker: Paul Kurtz, Executive Director, Cyber Security Industry Alliance

and Former Assistant to President Bush

Security Policies for VoIP Networks

Session 1: VoIP Overview

VoIP Architectures, Networks and Security Postures

   Jasson Casey, Level(3) Communications, Dallas, Texas

VoIP Standards and Open Issues

      Pradeep Samudra, Samsung, Dallas, Texas

Network Convergence: Security Themes and Issues

      Anthony Meehan, Gavin Manes and Sujeet Shenoi, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma

VoIP Security via Network Management

      Bogdan Materna, Yariba, Ottawa, Canada

Session 2: Deploying VoIP in Data Networks

Deploying VoIP using Firewalls and Network Translation Devices (NATs)

      Ed Luff, Newport Networks, Ottawa, Canada.

Enterprise VoIP Security

      Sridhar Ramachandran, NexTone Communications, Gaithersburg, Maryland

Securing Carrier VoIP Networks

       Jim Hourihan, Acme Packet, Woburn, Massachusetts 

Perimeter Security for VoIP Service Providers

       Jim Greenway, Kagoor Networks, San Mateo, California

Domain-Based Routing and VoIP Communications

      J. Shiva Shankar and O.T. Satyanarayanan, Cisco Systems, San Jose, California

Session 3: Managing VoIP Security

Addressing Security Challenges of Mobility and Firewalls in VoIP Networks

      Frank Le and Basavaraj Patil, Nokia, Irving, Texas

Trait-Based Authorization Mechanisms for SIP using SAML

      Douglas Sicker, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado, Jon Peterson, Neustar, and Hans Tschofenig,, Siemens 

Gateway Security for SIGTRAN's M3UA Protocol in VoIP Networks

       Hemant Sengar, Duminda Wijesekera and Sushil Jajodia, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia

CALEA Architectures and Call Flows for VoIP NetworkS

      Sophia Scoggins, Chander Raja, Texas Instruments Incorporation, Dallas, Texas

LUNCH BREAK  

Invited Speaker: Prof. Henning Schulzrinne, Columbia University

Securing VoWLAN 

Session 4: Balancing VoIP Security and Performance

VoIP Security and Quality of Service (QoS): Can They Coexist?

      N. Thanthry and Ravi Pendse, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas

Impact of Network Intrusions on QoS

      Dongwook Shin, Qovia, Frederick, Maryland

Performance and Security Analysis of SIP using IPSec

Thomas Bowen, John Haluska, Panayiotis Thermos and Steven Ungar, Telcordia Technologies, Redbank, New Jersey

Session 5: Defending VoIP Networks

Detecting Spam in VoIP Networks

      Ram Dantu and Prakash Kolan, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

Vulnerability Analysis and Security Architectures for IP Telephony

      Brennen Reynolds and Dipak Ghosal, Felix Wu, University of California-Davis, Davis, California

DoS Attacks on SIP Infrastructures

      Dorgham Sisalem and Jiri Kuthan, Fraunhafer Fokus, Berlin, Germany, 

       and Gunter Schafer, Technical University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Defending VoIP Networks from Distributed DoS (DDoS) Attacks 

      John Larson, Travis Dawson, Mark Evans, Jay Cee Straley, Sprint, Burlingame, California

Panel Session: Securing Current and Future VoIP Networks

      Chair: John Larson, Sprint Advanced Technology Labs,  Manuel Vexler, IPCC

      Participants: Cisco Systems,  Qovia, Acme Packet, Newport Networks, 

                            Kagoor Networks, NexTone Communications, and Columbia University

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