The recent imbroglio caused by an Israeli company compromising Indian Whatsapp accounts underlines the fact that even end to end encryption offered by freeware communication solutions are simply not enough. The Indian Government’s military advised its officers to avoid Facebook and Whatsapp for official use. Governments and military need video conferencing but not just any common garden variety of video conferencing. They need highly secure, high quality, totally reliable solutions that will handle any load and work under any conditions, even in emergency situations. Asterisk Video conferencing solutions for government and army offer highest levels of security for such communications.
Full facilities and features
Video conferencing in government permits better and faster collaboration while reducing costs but security is vital in all areas such as police, courts, hospitals, ministerial communications, fire fighting and disaster relief operations as well as training. Video conferencing saves costs and facilitates work, sometimes coming in quite useful as in the case of disaster relief. One feature is WebRTC inclusion that permits encrypted and safe video conferencing, chat, document sharing and presentation feature that military and governments will find useful. Then there are times when conferencing must be absolutely confidential as happens in the case of meeting of top level administrators. WebRTC comes in useful with its inherent security features. However, Asterisk Service video conferencing solutions embed high level security protocols over existing security protocols. The solution stays compliant with country specific laws.
Protocols and security
Asterisk has embedded segregated management, media encryption and signaling encryption in its video conferencing software. Reliability and fast communications are taken care of by scalable video coding regardless of internet bandwidth and speed. Suitable procedures are incorporated in the software to assure information security and compliance needs and to detect threats in time as well as breaches if and when they do occur. The software is open to SOC2 audit, complying with privacy trust service and security principles in accordance with NIST standards.
- Asterisk Service makes use of third party testing and assessment to provide reliable certification of its conferencing solution’s security aspect.
- Signaling encryption is part of the architecture, taken care of by 256 bit AES over TLS encryption for endpoint and server communication. Key exchanges are handled by Diffie Hellman or RSA and the keys encrypt SRTP media traffic making it impossible for hackers to sniff packets.
- Unlike normal password logins the conferencing solution for government and military makes use of tokens to identify application and user thereby providing additional security layer. Tokens have expiration time, are unique and cannot be reused. Only if the token is entered within the time period can a user participate in the conference.
- Asterisk Service makes use of FIPS 140-2 cryptographic libraries to assure higher levels of security for military and government conferencing and communications.
Asterisk Service video conferencing solution for military and government is a cut above the commercially used video conferencing solution, layered with security and encryption to assure peace of mind.