Sonus Redefines Enterprise Communications Security

New Solution to Link Sonus SBCs and
NGFWs – Raising the Trust Level of Unified Communications and Improving
Enterprises’ Security Posture

For Release: June 14, 2017

·         Sonus introduces an initiative to bolster enterprise
communications security.

·         Unique solution combines the complementary strengths
of Sonus SBCs and industry leading NGFWs to deliver stronger, seamless security
for IP data and real-time communications traffic.

·         The solution is designed to reduce the SIP security
attack surface by unifying the data and UC security perimeters and facilitate
automated and real-time adaptive security provisioning across the enterprise.

APJ – Sonus Networks, Inc. (Nasdaq: SONS), a global
leader in securing cloud and real-time communications, announced today an
initiative that will combine the capabilities of Sonus Session Border
Controllers (SBCs) and industry leading next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) to provide
a truly unified security perimeter for enterprises. The new solution addresses
the growing need for enterprises to secure both IP-based data and SIP-based
real-time communications in a cohesive, consistent manner as they migrate to
Unified Communications (UC).

In the new unified security perimeter,
NGFWs and Sonus SBCs work together by exchanging security context to leverage
their strengths and fill these security holes. Sonus SBCs deep understanding of
SIP session characteristics can now enable NGFWs to take part in mitigating
telephony denial-of-service (TDoS) attacks and theft of service attacks that
might have been missed. Similarly, the NGFWs payload scanning ability can help
the SBCs blacklist bad actors sending spyware or other malware. By linking the
NGFW and SBC platforms at the control-plane level, the unified security
perimeter provides a holistic network defense system that makes real-time
threat detection and mitigation a reality in both hardware and cloud
architectures. This capability becomes increasingly important as enterprises
move to cloud or software-defined network (SDN) architectures, where the
network perimeter may now be logical rather than physical.

“Enterprises are seeing a rise in UC
attacks, many of them designed to shut down contact centers or steal mission
critical company data,” said Mykola Konrad, vice president, Product Management
and Marketing, Sonus. “By integrating the capabilities of next-generation
firewalls with Sonus SBCs and leveraging the automation capabilities of SDN
architectures, this new architecture delivers unprecedented security against
data exfiltration, TDoS and many other UC threats.”

“The efforts by two of our VNF
providers, Sonus Networks and Palo Alto Networks, to support cross VNF service
chains is exactly the type of intelligent collaboration we had envisioned when
we launched Verizon Virtual Network Services,” said Shawn Hakl, vice president,
Business Networking and Security Solutions, Verizon. “The exchange of meta data
between virtual functions to allow policy decisions based on complete
visibility across the network will provide a level of security for enterprises
that is simply not possible with individual point solutions.”