SIP Privacy Extensions

This section explains how you can configure privacy services to be applied only when the source is trusted and the destination is considered untrusted. (Prior to this release, the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller always applied the privacy services, unless the source and the destination were both trusted.)

The Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller considers all user endpoints and nodes outside the core as untrusted.

The Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller acts as the boundary device between the trusted platform and the untrusted Internet, to implement privacy requirements. When it receives a message, the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller checks whether the source is trusted. It evaluates the level of privacy requested in a Privacy header, if present.

Depending on whether the source is trusted or untrusted, the Oracle® Enterprise Session Border Controller can do different things when passing the message to the outgoing side. It also checks whether the destination is trusted.