Common Security Threats for Office Communications Server 2007 R2

Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 and Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 will reach end of support on January 9, 2018. To stay supported, you will need to upgrade. For more information, see Resources to help you upgrade your Office 2007 servers and clients.

This section identifies the more common threats to the security of your Office Communications Server 2007 R2 infrastructure and communications, and for each threat it includes a link to the features, technologies, and procedures that mitigate the threat. If you have a particular security concern, you can use this section to go immediately to the appropriate section of this guide. Or you can read the entire section to quickly familiarize yourself with the ways in which Office Communications Server 2007 R2 addresses the main security concerns facing all private networks.

In This Section

This section includes the following topics:

• Compromised-Key Attack

• Network Denial-of-Service Attack

• Eavesdropping

• Identity Spoofing (IP Address Spoofing)

• Man-in-the-Middle Attack

• RTP Replay Attack

• Spim

• Viruses and Worms

• Personally Identifiable Information