Many businesses are delaying rolling out high productivity technologies, such as wireless local area networks and IP telephony systems, because they have seen so much hype about the potential threats.

[But] the bottom line is that IP telephony attacks are rare.

Moving NAC in from the network’s edge to include switches and wireless devices lets network administrators build baseline security policies for these devices before they connect to the network.

Enterprises that diligently use security best practice to protect their IP telephony servers should not let these threats derail their plans. For these enterprises, the benefits of IP telephony far outweigh any security risks.