Tapping IP Phones In Sensitive Locations A major consumer finance institution in the U.S. with more than 17,000 IP phones on its network used the Awake Security Platform to determine that four of its phones were being electronically tapped. The organization’s large security team struggled with visibility into the IP phones since existing security controls were blind to these devices. They also exist for the sole purpose of communicating with destinations outside the company, so large volumes of traffic being exchanged with external sources is not unusual. However, it was unusual that only a small number of phones were uploading data to a particular suspect destination every so often. To find this activity, Awake’s analytics did not simply compare the current behavior of thes

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