In June 2004, TippingPoint announced its Intrusion Prevention Systems provided security and bandwidth protection for VoIP, making it one of the first true VoIP security products. The TippingPoint IPS is capable of protecting the underlying threats in the data network: Worms, viruses, Trojans, and Denial of Service threats. It also protects against VoIP-specific threats, including vulnerabilities in VoIP protocol implementations. TippingPoint’s bandwidth management capabilities can prioritize traffic and throttle traffic associated with non-critical applications like peer-to-peer file sharing.

3Com, together with its TippingPoint division, formed the Voice over IP Security Alliance in February 2005 in order to find and mitigate VoIP security risks through research, education and testing. The VoIP Security Alliance (VOIPSA) is the first and only group solely and holistically dedicated to VoIP security research and education backed by a wide spectrum of organizations represented by universities, security researchers, VoIP vendors, thought leaders and VoIP providers. The mission of VOIPSA is to improve the public awareness of issues and best practices for security and privacy of VoIP.

The Frost & Sullivan Award for Technology Leadership is bestowed each year upon the company that has demonstrated excellence in technology leadership within their industry. 3Com and its TippingPoint division have demonstrated technology leadership by excelling in all stages of the technology life cycle—incubation, adaptation, take-up and maturity—to ensure a continuous flow of improvements. By innovating leading-edge concepts the company has pioneered client applications.