I would strongly suggest to move your production system to Linux, which is by far secure and controllable then Windows. Right now, if somebody does not breaks into your voip setup using some bruteforce / DOS attack, s/he can still exploit some hole in Windows to crack your security. Windows is simply not secure enough to production grade performance. Thank you. On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Avi Marcus <avi@avimarcus.net> wrote:
That's not necessarily the best kind of password... see http://xkcd.com/936/ and then http://tech.dropbox.com/?p=165
-Avi
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 6:23 AM, jay binks <jaybinks@gmail.com> wrote:
Strong passwords are a great start, but fail2ban does a little more than this.
you could move off port 5060 to something un-conventional, meaning your less likely to get scanned / brute forced.
Jay
On 14 June 2012 12:27, ocset <ocset@the800group.com> wrote:
Hi
I have deployed Freeswiitch on windows 7 and since there is no fail2ban on windows, I was wondering what the real risk is with opening it up to the internet. If I was to ensure that all users and passwords were extremely difficult to guess (passwords like "2$53E_d7?^2!3s$"), what are the risks that I am exposing myself to? Is there a type of DoS for voip where hackers can just flood my system with requests simply to be malicious?
There are VB windows scripts available that emulate what fail2ban does on Linux but I was just wondering whether I really need to implement this level of security if I can control the password complexity in Freeswitch.
Thanks O
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