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FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions

By : Alex Robar
Book Image

FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions

By: Alex Robar

Overview of this book

FreePBX is an easy-to-use GUI that controls and manages Asterisk. It gives you pre-programmed functionality accessible through user-friendly web interfaces that allows you to have a fully functional PBX pretty much straight away with no programming. With this book it's easy to master the many features of FreePBX, which will help you to save time and money as you set up your enterprise-class network. This book will guide you through these features to install, configure, and maintain a professional PBX with plenty of examples and screenshots. By the end of this book, you will have learned to create an enterprise-class VoIP PBX that features the stability and feature set of traditional telephony systems without the hefty price tag. This book will help its readers to roll out a robust, web-based, and inexpensive yet powerful telephony solution through the GUI. By following the practical examples in this book, you will learn how to install, configure, and manage an enterprise-class PBX using open source telephony tools Asterisk and FreePBX. From here on, this book takes a closer look at the open source telephony engine software, discussing a broad range of topics from how to build and deploy an enterprise-class VoIP PBX to creating VoIP trunks using SIP, IAX2, and ZAP technologies and setting up user extensions with voicemail. FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions will introduce you to advanced options such as call routing, voicemail, and other calling features. Finally, this book will provide you with the relevant information to help you personalize and secure your PBX.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
FreePBX 2.5 Powerful Telephony Solutions
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
Preface
Voicemail.conf Options

Chapter 11. Security and Access Control

No matter which hardware platform it runs on, at the end of the day a FreePBX-based phone system is just like any other server. It runs on software that must be secured and maintained to ensure the system does not fall prey to hackers or malicious users. Given the nature of a PBX there is often no leeway afforded for downtime in the event that a system is compromised, so the best practice is to know how to protect the system to start with. In this chapter, we will discuss the following:

  • Updating Linux operating system packages

  • Maintaining a current version of Asterisk

  • Securing the MySQL server

  • Securing remote access to the PBX

  • Securing FreePBX administration through administrator accounts

System packages

A FreePBX system runs on dozens of software packages that are constantly being updated. Updates to these packages fix bugs in their operation, and often patch security holes that could otherwise leave the system vulnerable to attacks. As with any upgrade...