July 14, 2006
Why Your Company Should Record VoIP Calls
The other day, I gave a lengthy rundown on how you could record VoIP calls from Skype using HotRecorder, as well as links to other articles and methods. What was not mentioned was why your company just might want to make VoIP call recording a standard practice.
In a nutshell, businesses using VoIP should consider recording calls to comply with portions of both Sarbox (Sarbanes-Oxley) and CALEA (Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act) regulations. Sarbox is an US SEC securities regulation, and was signed into law by President Bush in 2002. CALEA is a 1994 act that gives law enforcement agencies the right to conduct surveillance on any new communications networks.
The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation), has a fairly comprehensive explanation of what CALEA means to the average person and business. A government site, AskCALEA, also provides information.
Both Sarbox and CALEA supposedly operate on the principle that your data (in this case your VoIP recordings) are safe and are only required in case an investigation is necessary. Since this means long-term archival of conversation recordings, there will be VoIP audio file storage issues to consider. VON magazine has an article about recording corporate VoIP and some available solutions. [via FierceVoIP]
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