Covergence, the leader in scaling, securing and controlling VoIP and other real-time services based on the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), announced that Kurt Bertone, vice president of product management, will be leading a conference session on the topic of "Securing VoIP and Real-Time Collaboration in the Enterprise" at Burton Group Catalyst Conference North America 2006. The Burton Group Catalyst Conference North America 2006 will be held June 14-16, at the Hilton San Francisco.

WHAT: Covergence Panel Session - "Securing VoIP and Real-Time Collaboration in the Enterprise" presented by Kurt Bertone, VP of product management

Bertone's session will be featured as part of the "Real Time Communications" track, and will provide session attendees with an overview of the security, service and reliability threats associated with Voice over IP (VoIP), video, instant messaging (IM), enterprise collaboration and other real-time applications based on the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Session Initiation Protocol (SIP).

WHEN: Friday, June 16, 10:40-11:05 a.m. PT

WHERE: Burton Group Catalyst Conference North America 2006
Hilton San Francisco
333 O'Farrell Street
San Francisco, CA 94102


Covergence's Eclipse series of solutions have been specifically built to address the security and control issues associated with edge of enterprise VoIP and IP networks deploying SIP-based applications and services. An integrated, purpose-built solution, the Eclipse provides fully authenticated, validated and encrypted user connections to protect against a wide array of attacks and to ensure the confidentiality and integrity of information. Eclipse also provides comprehensive network-level and application security to protect the enterprise infrastructure from attacks and intrusions, delivering the confidence of security, reliability, and quality to IT managers for their VoIP and IP network investments.