Hi all,
The medical clinic where I manage a BCM50 R6 (fully patched) has asked me to look into setting up remote IP sets that employees can use from their homes.
I have some spare i2004 sets lying around and with the Remote Worker/NAT Traversal feature, this seems relatively straightforward to set up. However... using the Remote Worker feature instead of a VPN would mean that voice traffic is unencrypted, and given that this is a medical clinic, calls over IP sets would involve confidential information.
My aim is not to install an IP set solution that would compromise confidentiality, but I'm trying to understand if using the Remote Worker feature is any more risky from a security standpoint than a having confidential discussion over a POTS line (which the clinic already uses several of).
Have any of you vendors/installers used the Remote Worker setup for businesses where confidentiality is important (medicine, law, etc.), or do you have another preferred method for connecting remote IP sets to the BCM? I'm curious to hear some perspective on this...
Thanks!
Matteo
The medical clinic where I manage a BCM50 R6 (fully patched) has asked me to look into setting up remote IP sets that employees can use from their homes.
I have some spare i2004 sets lying around and with the Remote Worker/NAT Traversal feature, this seems relatively straightforward to set up. However... using the Remote Worker feature instead of a VPN would mean that voice traffic is unencrypted, and given that this is a medical clinic, calls over IP sets would involve confidential information.
My aim is not to install an IP set solution that would compromise confidentiality, but I'm trying to understand if using the Remote Worker feature is any more risky from a security standpoint than a having confidential discussion over a POTS line (which the clinic already uses several of).
Have any of you vendors/installers used the Remote Worker setup for businesses where confidentiality is important (medicine, law, etc.), or do you have another preferred method for connecting remote IP sets to the BCM? I'm curious to hear some perspective on this...
Thanks!
Matteo