With VOIP no one can hear you scream

In a debate at the Infosecurity conference in London last Wednesday, an audience of security and IT pros voted that Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) wasn't able to support mission critical communications at the moment.

Banking security professionals argued that the expense of implementing current VoIP solutions coupled with the risk of security holes and network downtime did not make IP telephony an attractive business proposition.

"Think how many times a network goes down every day -- with VoIP no one can hear you scream," said John Meakin, group head of information security at Standard Chartered Bank.

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