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Cisco Unified IP Phone 7975G Administration Guide for Cisco Unified Communications Manager 6.0
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Chapter 1 An Overview of the Cisco Unified IP Phone
Understanding Security Features for Cisco Unified IP Phones
Providing Users with Feature Information
If you are a system administrator, you are likely the primary source of information for Cisco Unified IP
Phone users in your network or company. To ensure that you distribute the most current feature and
procedural information, familiarize yourself with Cisco
Unified IP Phone documentation. Make sure to
visit the Cisco
Unified IP Phone web site:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/phones/ps379/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
From this site, you can access various user guides, including wallet cards.
In addition to providing users with documentation, it is important to inform them about available
Cisco
Unified IP Phone features—including features specific to your company or network—and about
how to access and customize those features, if appropriate.
For a summary of some of the key information that phone users need their system administrators to
provide, see
Appendix A, “Providing Information to Users Via a Website.”
Understanding Security Features for Cisco Unified IP Phones
Implementing security in the Cisco Unified Communications Manager system prevents identity theft of
the phone and Cisco
Unified Communications Manager server, prevents data tampering, and prevents
call signaling and media stream tampering.
To alleviate these threats, the Cisco IP telephony network establishes and maintains authenticated and
encrypted communication streams between a phone and the server, digitally signs files before they are
transferred to a phone, and encrypts media streams and call signaling between Cisco
Unified IP phones.
The Cisco Unified IP Phones Series use the Phone Security Profile, which defines whether the device is
nonsecure, authenticated, or encrypted. For information on applying the security profile to the phone,
refer to Cisco Unified Communications Manager Security Guide.
If you configure security-related settings in Cisco Unified Communications Manager Administration,
the phone configuration file will contain sensitive information. To ensure the privacy of a configuration
file, you must configure it for encryption. For detailed information, refer to the “Configuring Encrypted
Phone Configuration Files” chapter in Cisco Unified Communications Manager Security Guide.
Table 1-2 shows where you can find additional information about security in this and other documents.
Table 1-2 Cisco Unified IP Phone and Cisco Unified Communications Manager Security Topics
Topic Reference
Detailed explanation of security,
including set up, configuration, and
troubleshooting information for Cisco
Unified
Communications Manager and
Cisco Unified
IP Phones
Refer to Cisco Unified
Communications Manager Security
Guide
Security features supported on the
Cisco Unified IP Phone
See the “Overview of Supported
Security Features” section on
page 1-11
Restrictions regarding security
features
See the “Security Restrictions” section
on page 1-18
Viewing a security profile name See the “Understanding Security
Profiles” section on page 1-13
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