Recent high?profile cyberattacks have many organizations understandably focusing their security efforts on pre-venting data breaches. While ensuring data security is indeed a top priority, enterprises must not become complacent in securing their mission?critical, real?time communications (RTC) applications, systems, and networks — including voice over IP (VoIP) and unified communications (UC) — which can be directly targeted as an attack objective in itself, or to exploit a new attack vector into other applications, systems, and networks, in order to effect a data breach.