ORLANDO, FL (PRWEB) March 16, 2015 -- Nationwide Processing, which provides outsourced mortgage production services to the lending industry, has selected eTechHelp and Ingate® Systems to deploy Ingate SIParator® Enterprise Session Border Controllers (E-SBCs) to secure their SIP trunking service and their network from ongoing toll fraud and hacker attacks.
The Ingate SIParators also enable remote NAT/firewall traversal (Far-End Network Address Translation) making it possible for Nationwide Processing’s 60 at-home center agents to access SIP trunking services through Nationwide’s IP PBX, which is located in a Tier III data center. Although this IP PBX had a second IP Interface that could be connected to a public IP address, it was not hardened for such usage. Ingate provided both IP-level and SIP-level security mechanisms.
Initially connected directly to the Internet, Nationwide Processing’s IP PBX continuously registered brute force registrations, as well as toll fraud, Denial of Service (DoS) and SIPVicious attacks. These attacks flooded the PBX with thousands of requests per second, freezing the PBX and blocking all calls to and from the call center agents. Working with eTechHelp they installed an Ingate SIParator 19 and SIParator 21 at the data center. This placed the PBX behind the Ingate E-SBC, which blocked all attacks.
“We were getting hammered by hackers. Ingate eliminated the entire issue. We are now clean and running issue-free,” said Guru Amrit Khalsa, President, Nationwide Processing. “eTechHelp has been the technical lead for the design, implementation and maintenance of our in-house, multinational VoIP phone system. I am impressed with their willingness to own a problem and then coordinate multiple vendors to solve it. They can handle whatever comes up.”
The Ingate SIParator is a powerful and cost-effective E-SBC for SIP connectivity, security and interoperability, such as connecting PBXs and UC solutions to SIP trunking service providers. SIParators offer enhanced security with TLS (Transport Layer Security) for secure SIP signaling, and SRTP (Secure Real-time Transport Protocol) for encrypted voice and video. They feature authentication and replay protection to shield users from eavesdroppers, hackers and spoofers and protect against theft of service. Here, SIP IDS/IPS (Intrusion Detection System/Intrusion Prevention System) worked in tandem with Ingate’s other security technologies, further strengthening security for VoIP, SIP trunking, UC and other SIP applications.
About eTechHelp
eTechHelp is a global technology consulting firm that provides outsourced consulting, project management, and implementation services for information technology, telecommunications and internet infrastructure to small, medium and enterprise businesses. eTechHelp delivers services online via our websites and offline through onsite consultants in specific geographical markets. For more information visit http://www.etechhelp.com.
About Ingate® Systems
Ingate® Systems develops firewall technology to enable global SIP- and WebRTC-based person to-person communication to provide the best access for telephony, global real-time and unified person-to-person communication for everyone. With a history in security, Ingate offers enterprises, service providers and carriers elegant solutions for SIP trunking and trusted real-time communications beyond the LAN. Ingate products are used by retail companies, financial institutions, industrial firms, government agencies and small-to-large enterprises throughout Europe, Asia and North America. For more information visit http://www.ingate.com.
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Hillary Call, PR Manager, Ingate Systems, http://www.ingate.com, +1 917-414-9262, [email protected]
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