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Vulnerability of streaming audio.

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by jdavis

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There is an ongoing battle here at my company between the Operations department and the Security Administrator over Internet use.

The issue at hand concerns Operation's overnight use of the Net for having constant music going. Specifically, I would like some opinions or facts about how vulnerable such a practice makes us to intruders.

Thanks,

John Davis

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by fnugry

The audio/video steam itself can hardly do any harm or make your system vulnarable to intrusion... as long as you have a secure network setup with firewall controlling access to the network (also making sure that audio can only be streamed on particular ports and only when the stream is initiated from inside) and traffic shaping units (to make sure that media traffic will not affect other, more critical services). Streaming applications, on other hand, can present more threats by doing more than just streaming audio: sending private information, fetching and executing some scripts, etc. Additionally, client host address exposure may be a concern when your clients have public addresses. So, you'd rather pay more attension to security of your network in general , than to streaming audio.

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