[Freeswitch-users] FreeSWITCH Security Hardening Project

[Brian West]

I'm talking more of an OS level security protocol... best practice guide.  I'm sure we could make an effort to document these steps.

/b

On Feb 17, 2012, at 10:50 PM, curriegrad2004 wrote:

> I personally think FreeSWITCH is already hardened enough - Only a fool
> or uninformed would allow the switch to be... well... left insecure in
> the first place.
> 
> We could harden FreeSWITCH by just simply re-writing the dialplan from scratch.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Brian West <brian at freeswitch.org> wrote:
>> I know we have some BSD folks using it but not sure how well tested it is.
>>  I think we need to have a deployment protocol for a secure environment.
>>  You have to not only worry about the machines security but the toll fraud
>> aspect and various other attacks that can originate in that manner.
>> 
>> /b
>> 
>> On Feb 17, 2012, at 10:26 PM, Mario Augusto Mania wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Brian, I am. I'm a brazilian developer and BSD oses user with focus in
>> security.
>> 
>> m3
>> 
>> 2012/2/18 Brian West <brian at freeswitch.org>
>> 
>> While sitting here in the hospital I have been talking to Philip Zimermann
>> 
>> (ZRTP) via phone...  And we have talked about a FreeSWITCH hardening
>> 
>> project (NO JOKES PLEASE).  This is taking FreeSWITCH and security to the
>> 
>> MAX.  I would like to start this project to make FreeSWITCH more secure in
>> 
>> the long run. (not saying that its not secure now).  Who would be
>> 
>> interested in such a project?
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> Brian West
>> 
>> FreeSWITCH Solutions, LLC
>> 
>> Phone: +1 (918) 420-9266
>> 
>> Fax:   +1 (918) 420-9267
>> 
>> brian at freeswitch.org
>> 
>> http://www.freeswitch.org
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Brian West
>> FreeSWITCH Solutions, LLC
>> Phone: +1 (918) 420-9266
>> Fax:   +1 (918) 420-9267
>> brian at freeswitch.org
>> http://www.freeswitch.org
>> 
>> 
> 

-- 
Brian West 
FreeSWITCH Solutions, LLC
Phone: +1 (918) 420-9266 
Fax:   +1 (918) 420-9267
brian at freeswitch.org
http://www.freeswitch.org

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