About
My name is Amitava Mukherjee and I am the CEO of RedShift Networks. We are a company based in Silicon Valley, California, with offices around the world.
This blog is meant to address the growing concern of security threats and attacks around Unified Communications, Collaboration and video/voice web-based applications.
Unified Communications & Collaboration applications are growing at a feverish pace with global companies like Cisco, Microsoft, IBM, Avaya, Polycom and many others, in the networking, application and communications space targeting the market. Enterprises, large, medium and small, are all embracing the power of this new interconnected world where voice, data and video networks are merged, and the traditional definition of enterprises and trusted silos are broken down daily.
With the daily advent of new fixed and mobile endpoint technologies, like the IPAD, the Android or IPhone smartphone, and cloud based networks and systems, to interconnect enterprises with their customers, with their partners and their own employees, the need to protect these networks from the on slaughter of attacks, threats and vulnerabilities is critical.
The Unified Communications & Collaboration realm is defined around real-time communications like: VOIP, Video Conferencing, Unified Messaging, Contact Center/Call Center applications, IVR & ACD systems, Presence, Collaboration, and a myriad of other communication applications. Some analysts have estimated that this market will grow to become a $35B market by 2013. Others have estimated a faster growth pace especially as global enterprises aggressively move towards reducing costs structures using these technologies to innovate and become more productive.
The security market around this technology is estimated to grow feverishly alongside the growth of UC & Collaborations market. RedShift estimates that this market will become a $1.7B by 2013.
We shall also be addressing the concerns around Voice/Video web-based applications.
As we all know security is not only about threats, attacks and vulnerabilities. Security is about setting the right policies inside the enterprise and giving the network managers enough information and visibility so that he/she can make an educated decision on how best to run the enterprise.
We believe that the current security model is flawed and has tremendous amount of holes. We can see this by the increase of attacks in the last couple of years – attacks have increased 50% year to year. “Best-of-breed’ solutions have given way to open source based solutions which we believe perpetuate the problem.
We, at RedShift Networks, have invited a set of luminaries from the global Information technology market to write about this general topic.
The goal of the blog is both to educated and exchange ideas.
I invite you to read this blog.