Lucent Technologies 518-456-10 User Manual

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The System Manager is responsible for the security of the system. As the 
System Manager, it is important that you fully understand and appropriately 
administer this product to reduce your risk of incurring charges that result 
from unauthorized use of the system. Under the law, you, the customer is 
responsible for paying for part or all of those unauthorized calls.
Be aware that criminals called hackers may attempt to gain unauthorized 
access to your communications system and your voice messaging system. 
Hackers often try to trick a company’s employees into providing them with 
access to an outside line or an outside operator. They may also concentrate 
their activities in two areas related to the voice messaging system:
They try to dial into a mailbox, then execute a transfer to an outside line. 
Then they dial an access code, followed by a digit string to either direct 
dial or access a network operator to complete the call.
They try to locate unused or unprotected mailboxes and use them as 
drop-off points for their own messages.
System Security Guidelines
To reduce the risk of unauthorized use of your communications and voice 
messaging systems, you should:
Change the System Manager’s password from the factory setting. Use a 
hard-to-guess value.
Advise subscribers to protect their mailboxes by changing their passwords 
(a four-digit password is required) when they log into PARTNER Voice 
Messaging for the first time and frequently thereafter. Subscribers can refer 
to the instructions for changing their passwords in “Using PARTNER Voice 
Messaging” in
 this guide, or refer to the 
PARTNER Voice Messaging Quick 
Reference Card.
Monitor your call reporting system records of outgoing calls to identify 
possible system abuse.
Security