http://sipera.com/ is one such product.

From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rizwan Hisham
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 9:33 AM
To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
Subject: Re: [asterisk-users] asterisk security....again

Thanks Mr. Kevin.

Can anyone please also tell me which firewall is best suited for asterisk/sip 
attack prevention. Is there any firewall built specially to address sip 
security problems?
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Kevin P. Fleming 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 02/28/2011 07:27 AM, Rizwan Hisham wrote:
Any suggestions on encrypting the sip and rtp. I have done some googling
on it. looks like it is not supported by most end point devices or
service providers. But still your thoughts will be appreciated on this
subject.

You cannot protect a remote SIP endpoint from attacks via your server; that SIP 
endpoint is an endpoint itself, and if it can receive IP packets from 
attackers, it will process them. These packets don't go through your server, 
and encrypting the legitimate traffic between your server and the remote 
endpoint isn't going to make any difference at all.

The *only* way to address attacks like this is to modify the configuration of 
the remote endpoint to ignore all incoming packets that aren't from your 
server(s). Even that is not a perfect solution, though, because the attacker 
(if they are actually aware of your server and customers) can spoof the IP 
addresses of your server(s) in order to get the remote endpoints to at least 
accept an INVITE (they can't place a successful call through them using 
spoofing though).

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