Important Security Considerations¶

The pages in this section provide specific warnings about security that are pertinent to Asterisk. Just because you're already familiar with securing your Linux machine, doesn't mean you can skip this section.

Asterisk security involves both network security (encryption, authentication) as well as dialplan security (authorization - who can access services in your pbx). If you are setting up Asterisk in production use, please make sure you understand the issues involved.