Polycom's Spectralink Wireless Telephones join Polycom VSX video products and its industry-leading line of MGC/MGC+ unified conferencing bridges for voice, video and content collaboration on the FIPS 140-2 pre-validation list. Polycom says that its full range of FIPS compliant collaboration products support the company's commitment to providing users with a high degree of security, assurance, and dependability.

 

With the introduction of the VSX Release 8.5 with H.460 support for standards-based firewall, network addressing traversal as well as comprehensive Security Mode, Polycom was also the first vendor to offer a video conferencing line with pending FIPS 140-2 compliance in the U.S. and Canada. FIPS 140-2 is a U.S. government computer security standard used to accredit cryptographic modules and certify private sector vendor products for use in government departments and regulated industries that collect, store, transfer, share and disseminate sensitive, but un-classified information.

 

The standard is part of a joint effort by the NIST and the Communications Security Establishment (CSE) and has been adopted by both U.S. and Canadian governments. Four levels of security are available. The SpectraLink handsets should receive Level 2 certification, which meets all the baseline requirements of the specification and also meets requirements for physical tamper-evidence and role-based authentication. The SpectraLink NetLink e340, h340 and i640 models are pre-validated for FIPS 140-2 Level 2 security and will begin shipping next month. They range in price from $449-$699.

 

Source: Tom's Hardware