Twilio strongly recommends configuring user credentials on SIP trunks because IP ACLs alone do not protect against certain types of attack.

Checked 2026-09-25

It is highly recommended that you configure User Credentials. IP ACL's alone does not protect against certain types of attacks.
Vendor
Twilio
Product
Elastic SIP Trunking
Subsystem
Termination authentication
Deployment
multi-tenant
Region
not restricted
Release range
current as of 2026-09-25
Checked
2026-09-25

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APA

WarmTransfer. (2026, September 25). SIP scanning and telephony denial of service: source note sip-scanning-tdos-twilio-recommends-credentials. WarmTransfer. https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-scanning-tdos-twilio-recommends-credentials

BibTeX

@misc{warmtransfer-claim-sip-scanning-tdos-twilio-recommends-credentials,
  title  = {SIP scanning and telephony denial of service: source note sip-scanning-tdos-twilio-recommends-credentials},
  author = {{WarmTransfer}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://warmtransfer.net/knowledge/claims/sip-scanning-tdos-twilio-recommends-credentials},
  note   = {Source note sip-scanning-tdos-twilio-recommends-credentials, checked 2026-09-25}
}

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