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Posted on Wednesday April 12, 2017 | voip, skype, ransomware, html, flash ad, backups
Skype has made many improvements to become the go-to audio and video communication tool. But as more people turn to Skype to conduct their business, hackers are sure to follow. Recently, Skype has been plagued with fake Flash ads, which if triggered, lead to devastating ransomware infections. Read on below to find out how you can stay safe from this attack.
Posted on Monday March 27, 2017 | voip, unified communications, online video chat, customer service
Online video chat turns stiff customer service interactions into a more personal experience. Seeing the person you're talking to makes for a more substantial conversation. With that in mind, businesses ought to integrate such a function if they want to make significant changes to the way they handle customer inquiries. Despite the obvious advantage, few companies have adopted an online video chat functionality. It's predicted that by 2018, that will change.
Posted on Thursday March 09, 2017 | webrtc, voip, video calling, telecommunications, customer service
The VoIP industry is becoming increasingly hard to define. More and more are voice communications being made over internet connections, and sometimes you may not even realize you're doing it. WebRTC is a newcomer to the internet-based telephony field. Read on to decide whether it's for you.
Posted on Monday February 20, 2017 | voip, phones, hardware, follow me
“Follow-me†features from VoIP vendors have revolutionized modern business telecommunications. Because internet-based phone solutions allow office workers to answer one phone number from multiple devices, companies can reduce costs and increase efficiency. But for all its certainties, VoIP may have you questioning one thing: Do you even need office phones any more?
Posted on Wednesday February 01, 2017 | voip, unified communications, migration, cloud
Migrating your organization's unified communications (UC) to the cloud seems like a no-brainer: it's practical, it's cheap, it's the future. Big-name companies such as Cisco, IBM, Microsoft and Verizon now offer Unified communications as a Service (UCaaS), and it's only a matter of time before it takes over the Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) space.
Posted on Tuesday January 17, 2017 | voip, session border controllers, sbc updates, eavesdropping, denial of service, call jacking
VoIP has become the ultimate communication tool for enterprises, but it has also become another vulnerability that hackers exploit. Because voice is essentially transferred as data, the risk of digitized messages being intercepted and heard by unauthorized ears increases. That's why businesses need security systems like an up-to-date session border controller (SBC) to protect against a plethora of voice attacks.