[ILUG] Asterisk security

[Brendan Minish]

On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 12:42 +0000, Kevin Brennan wrote:
> Hello Iluggers,
>    As many of you may be Asterisk owners or maintainers I think this 
> mailing list is a good place to highlight the importance of making sure 
> security has been considered.

Kevin, Thanks for the timely reminder. Another thing that I implement on
public facing asterisk systems is fail2ban and configure it to monitor
the asterisk logs for bruteforce login attempts 

there's a guide on doing this here 
 
http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Fail2Ban+%28with+iptables%29+And
+Asterisk


regards
Brendan