Sipera SLiC

Making Smartphone VoIP and UC “Ready for Business”

Smartphones are revolutionizing the business world.  With ever-increasing processing power, a widening array of valuable applications, and the promise of low-cost and rich communications via VoIP, the smartphone has already become central to operations at many enterprises. 

Extending Unified Communications to the smartphone is the new phase of evolution in business communications.

• But the smartphone introduces new security risks. 
  Smartphones possess increasingly sophisticated operating systems that can perform many of the functions of PCs. This creates security gaps that malware and hackers can exploit. The rich array of smartphone applications are controlled by users and third parties, not enterprise IT.
• VoIP on the smartphone can offer tremendous cost savings, but it crosses untrusted networks, is not integrated into the enterprise security architecture, and increases the risk of jeopardizing compliance with privacy laws and mandates. 
• Employees in enterprises of all types are already using unauthorized VoIP applications on smartphone, creating extremely serious risks of information leakage and non-compliance.
• SMS, IM and other communications on the smartphone are proving to be another vector of information loss and privacy non-compliance. 
• Smart phones can store or provide access to a great deal of highly sensitive proprietary data, intellectual property, protected information, and critical resources, which could be compromised if the phone is stolen or lost.
• The emergence of 3G and 4G networks dramatically increases the bandwidth available to phones, enhancing their utility for Internet access and creating additional risk of exposure to malware and other exploits.

Sipera Systems, the worldwide leader in UC security solutions, is introducing Sipera SLiC (Secure Live Communications), a revolutionary solution that establishes comprehensive, enterprise-class security for Unified Communications on the smartphone.

Sipera SLiC Tames the Smartphone

• Smartphones using VoIP via WiFi, 3G, 2G, GPRS or other data networks are automatically authenticated into the enterprise telephony infrastructure, enabling all security policies and rules to be applied to the smartphone.
• All communications to the smartphone are fully encrypted and private, using the same strong encryption used for all of the enterprise’s other services accessed over non-secure public networks.
• The enterprise communication security posture is extended seamlessly and simply to the smartphone. 
• IT managers now have one single management console and point of control for the security posture across the entire enterprise for all end-points … desk phone, soft-clients … UC devices … and now the smartphone.

Sipera SLiC makes VoIP and UC on the smartphone “ready for business.”  Unlike untrusted, uncontrolled third-party VoIP or IM applications that are out of the enterprise IT or telecom group’s control, Sipera SLiC integrates the smartphone into the enterprise’s UC infrastructure. 

Sipera SLiC consists of:

• A security appliance that sits in the enterprise DMZ, providing access control, authentication, encryption, policy enforcement, and threat detection and mitigation.
• Interoperable smartphones with native SIP clients, or the downloadable Sipera SLiC client, which provides a secure SIP stack, VoIP capabilities and integration with enterprise security.

For more information, please download our Sipera SLiC Brochure.