Toronto Asterisk User Group

Stephan Monette from Unlimitel.ca will be visiting from Ottawa to give a talk on Asterisk security. He will cover common techniques used to guess passwords, how to better protect your system, and discuss how to write custom applications in C with the goal of increasing system security.

There will also be some brainstorming on building honey pots/mouse traps to detect and dissect attack vectors.

Matthew Gamble will be giving a talk on how the convergence of the traditional phone network with the power of modern application development is opening the door for a wide variety of powerful and feature-rich applications and services, as well as how these might tie into existing business processes and applications using a SIP Application Server.

What you will learn:

• Knowledge of directions and trends for SIP Application Server community
• Growing market for SIP application servers
• Understand state of the art of SIP Application designs
• Integration into existing business processes using standards such as SOAP, Java, XML, etc
• Understand future road maps

Why you should attend:

• To gain insight and knowledge about cutting egde trends in VoIP and next generation telecommunications.

Who should attend:

• Telecom managers
• Application developers

Presenter:

Dave Donovan
IT Manager, Nuvo Research

Synopsis:

This intends to give attendees an overview of the pfSense and Freeswitch packages and review the process for a typical home installation. This will not be a step by step walkthrough but will include some screenshots and discussions of basic configuration options. The walkthrough, slides, and references should prepare attendees to build their own pfSense + Freeswitch system in a weekend.

Advanced knowledge of Asterisk, VOIP, and firewalls are not required. New users should find the material and concepts very accessable. New users are encouraged to come out and ask questions. Discussion of more advanced topics like integration is encouraged as part of the Q&A but will not be part of the slide show.

By the end of this presentation, you will have an overview of:

• Installing pfSense
• Installing the Freeswitch package for pfSense
• Configuring a softphone to connect to Freeswitch
• Configuring an ATA as a client of Freeswitch
• Configuring SIP trunking
• Basic firewall configuration for a typical home application

Anyone interested in reading up or experimenting in advance can go to pfsense.org to download ISO or VMware images of pfSense.

We've been working closely with IT360 again this year to bring in some great speakers. We're very excited to have Kevin Fleming and John Todd joining us from Digium, as well as Ethan Schroeder from Schmooze Communications.

As a member of TAUG (and all other AUG's), you are eligible for special rates:

• To attend the conference and receive a 25% discount use code: A107
• Special pricing for out of town visitors to the Asterisk Digium Open Telephony Conference at IT360. If you are traveling more then 100 km to attend, please contact steph@plumcom.ca for a special code to receive a 50% discount to attend
• To attend the trade show using a complimentary pass, use code: TS1 ($50 value)