The Trust Verification Service (TVS) runs on Unified CM servers and authenticates certificates on behalf of Cisco IP phones, so phones do not need to store every trusted certificate locally.

Checked 2026-09-25

TVS authenticates certificates on behalf of the Cisco IP Phone
Vendor
Cisco
Product
Unified Communications Manager
Subsystem
Security by Default / TVS
Deployment
on-premises
Region
not restricted
Release range
Release 15 and SUs
Checked
2026-09-25

Sources

Cite this note

APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 25). Unified CM security hardening: source note cucm-security-hardening-tvs-role. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/cucm-security-hardening-tvs-role

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-cucm-security-hardening-tvs-role,
  title  = {Unified CM security hardening: source note cucm-security-hardening-tvs-role},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/cucm-security-hardening-tvs-role},
  note   = {Source note cucm-security-hardening-tvs-role, checked 2026-09-25}
}

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