Sipera - Top 10 VoIP Leaders

Website: www.sipera.com

What makes it a fierce leader: Sipera is a pure play security firm focused on VoIP and other IP communications. With security remaining the Achilles heal for VoIP Sipera has emerged as one of the leaders in the VoIP security space. Founded in 2003, Sipera is headquartered in Richardson, Texas, with a development center in India, Sipera has developed solutions which learn call patterns and endpoint fingerprints enabling the solution to adapt to new types of threats. The real time nature of VoIP requires an ability for solutions to evolve so as to stop stealth attacks and VoIP spam. Sipera's Viper Lab has concentrated its efforts on identifying SIP, UMA and IMS vulnerabilities and has exposed a number of critical vulnerabilities in several big players.
What to look for: Sipera's work means the firm is not the most popular in the VoIP family. Earlier this year Sipera claimed Vonage, Globe7 and Grandstream users were vulnerable to identity theft, eavesdropping and other exploits from hackers. The Texas-based security lab said among other threats, unwitting VoIP users face eavesdropping, spam, spoofing and denial-of-service attacks. Since then several reports have been published noting the vulnerability of VoIP, including the almighty Cisco having to admit its phones were vulnerable to eaves dropping and other hacks. Publicity around security is affecting VoIP's credibility with no provider wanting to be party to an embarrassing attack, which is why firms like Sipera are going to be kept very busy.