The ROI of VoIP Security

Enterprise and Cloud Provider security is increasingly important for applications and users. Improving upon traditional layered firewall and intrusion-based security, RedShift Networks VoIP and UCaaS-savvy protection offers layers of protection and analytics to prevent dangerous and costly inroads into businesses causing productivity and profitability losses.

These losses are sizable and now mostly preventable. Select global losses in the VoIP and Unified Security industry include:

• Telecom fraud – Nearly $31b lost in 2020 according to Communications Fraud Control Association (CFCA)
• Robocalls – Cost businesses and consumers more than $10b of time and service theft loss in 2021.
• Telephony DoS – An FBI note details the dangers of this threat. Industry estimates put losses from the nearly 3 million related DDoS attacks above $5b in 2021.
• Bots – Automated bots operated by malicious actors cost businesses an average of 3.6% of their annual revenue toping out at $250m annually for the largest businesses alone.

Unlike prior generations of network security, RedShift Networks Unified Communications Threat Management (UCTM) defends against a broad class of nuisance and malicious calls delivered via an oft-stolen VoIP or Unified Communications (UC)-based computer system. To help customers understand the problems, costs, details and ultimately ROI here is a hyperlinked resourced table.

RedShift Networks solution helps customers prevent revenue loss of $25,000 daily or nearly $1 million per exploit by the time the hack is discovered after two months. Malicious examples include automated telemarketing/voice spam, traffic pumping, number harvesting, voice phishing, impersonations, call spoofing and scammers. According to the Federal Trade Commission, scammers gained an average of $430 for each successful connection, reported an average more than 250,000 robocall complaints every two weeks, out of which 35,000 are new numbers.