Re: [PEN-TEST] War Dialers

["Teicher, Mark" <mark.teicher () NETWORKICE COM>]

Yes, but placing a Telewall Firewall in-line with a very busy PBX (over 8
T-1s) can cause a bottle neck.  This is an extremely bad design for large
nationwide insurance companies.  The Telewall Firewall was not successful
at the last place I was consulting at. It is not compatible with the larger
Lucent or WilTel equipment.

/m

At 02:10 PM 9/1/00 -0500, Todd Beebe wrote:
> To clarify some information about the SecureLogix products for telephony
> security:
>
> TeleSweep Secure Scanner is a distributable dialer/vulnerability scanner for
> remote access servers that has penetration testing capabilities.
>
> TeleWall Firewall is a distributable appliance that connects between a PBX
> and the CO and allows administrators to control voice and data traffic using
> a security policy thats very similar to most policy-based ip only firewalls.
> Admins can set policy that allows or terminates traffic based on source,
> destination, call type, time of day, etc.  It is PBX independent.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Destefano, Robert [mailto:RRD () PARA-PROTECT COM]
> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 11:29 AM
> To: PEN-TEST () SECURITYFOCUS COM
> Subject: Re: [PEN-TEST] War Dialers
>
>
> The older version of PhoneSweep wasn't the best in the world
> although I haven't gotten around to using the newer version.
> In reference to the other new product SecureLogix has.. TeleWall - From all
> the tests I have personally seen, it seems to work extremely well not only
> from a security standpoint but from a management standpoint as well.  It
> acts as a firewall for phone systems from the PBX... It can detect
> voice/fax/data
> modes and lock certain numbers to only certain means of comms. (ie.. a voice
> only can't have a modem unknowingly connected to it - you have to activate
> it on the management console.)
>
> my .02
> Rocky