[Freeswitch-users] Your Security Best Practices

[Sergey Okhapkin]

Give them a non-working example. And provide a comment on almost every line 
why this will not work. Let the customers exercise their brain first. You don't 
need dumb customers, am I right? You'll see a good outcome.

Sorry, but I can't resist. It's my daily work to get rid of unwanted 
customers. "Unwanted Customers" doesn't sound good in any language. But it's a 
reality...


On Thursday 17 June 2010, Michael Collins wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Sergey Okhapkin
> 
> <sos at sokhapkin.dyndns.org>wrote:
> > The security related problems were discussed on almost every soft switch
> > mailing lists I'm watching. And the outcome was (in plain English which
> > Americans do not understand) - never provide working configuration
> > samples in
> > the softswitch distribution :-( Let the end user build the configuration.
> 
> I don't know that I agree with such an extreme view. Better to give them an
> example of a locked-down config than to let them flounder on their own and
> possibly make something horrible. That being said, anyone using FS in the
> enterprise *SHOULD* consult a security professional to make sure that
> everything on their LAN/WAN is up to snuff.
> 
> -MC
>