Summary
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Over the past few years, collaboration technologies – including audio, video, and web conferencing - have played an ever-increasing role in national security and defense. Videoconferencing, in particular, has undergone a dramatic transformation from a “nice-to-have” leading-edge technology into a mission critical requirement.
As videoconferencing has gone mainstream, the concerns of conferencing and communication support teams have shifted. In the past, communication managers focused on basic functionality, reliability, and providing the best possible user experience (as measured in video/audio quality). For the most part, these issues have been resolved thanks to continuous enhancements in hardware, software, and networking technology. Today, the lion’s share of the attention is on the exposure of collaboration tools to IP network security threats.
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This white paper, sponsored by
Polycom, focuses on the currently accepted Department of Defense (DoD) security requirements for IP-based videoconferencing, and acts as a model for any organization seeking to deploy a secure visual collaboration environment that meets the DoD’s strict security requirements.