Installation guide

Securing your system against toll fraud A-3
: Protecting Your Phone System Against Toll Fraud
Wave Global Administrator Guide
Securing your system against toll fraud
The following are a variety of ways to secure your phone system. While practicing all of these
strategies will keep your phone system very secure, by far the most important strategy is to just
improve the security of passwords.
Password security
Wave System Settings gives you several options for making user passwords more secure. For
maximum security you should choose all of the following options:
• Set a minimum password length. Passwords should be at least 5 digits long, preferably 7
or more.
• Prevent passwords from including the user’s extension.
• Prevent passwords from including easy-to-guess elements like same-digit strings (111) or
consecutive-digit strings (123).
• Regularly force password change.
For more information about password security via the System Settings dialog, see “Enforcing
strong password security” on page 4-13
Changing the Admin and Operator passwords
Wave’s two default users, the Admin and Operator, have easy-to-guess passwords. Immediately
after installing Wave, you should change the passwords on those accounts to something more
secure, by editing those users in the Users view. Reminder messages in the User/Group
management applet will warn you if you leave the extensions as is.
Release 2.0
September 2010