Security Needs to Better Protect Automated Telephone Systems
December 27, 2013
With break ins of enterprise computer networks grabbing the headlines, there is a chance that chief security officers at some corporations and government agencies could be neglecting the lowly office phone. And that may be a costly mistake.
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