Abstract: Systems and methods for authenticating a user and a telephony device. The systems and methods utilize biometric data and/or cryptography for authenticating the user and the telephony device in a network-based environment during a communications session with other network elements and applications.

Abstract: The present invention relates to systems and methods that authenticate a user and a mobile device via the mobile device. The systems and methods utilize biometric data for authenticating a user and a mobile device in a network-based environment during a real-time communications session with other network elements and applications.

Abstract: According to an aspect of the present invention there is provided a VoIP asset discovery system for discovering and identifying VoIP assets on a VoIP network, the asset discovery system comprising an IP address module for determining at least one IP address to discover, a port scanner for scanning VoIP specific ports of the received IP addresses, a service detection module for detecting a VoIP service at the received IP addresses. The asset discovery system further comprises a fingerprinting module for fingerprinting VoIP applications based on responses received to specific queries and a correlation module for correlating the information from the port scanner module, the service detection module, and the fingerprinting module to identify the instances of the discovered assets.