What is TSG Voice & Video?

In high security environments, communication isn’t just about connectivity, it’s about control. Voice and video using traditional desk phones, modern softphone applications or room-based VTC, can become unintended pathways for sensitive information exposure if they aren’t properly secured. This risk is why organizations operating in mission-critical and classified environments must employ TSG-approved solutions to protect every conversation.
 
TSG compliant refers to secure collaboration solutions that meet the rigorous standards established by the National Telecommunications Security Working Group (NTSWG), formerly known as the Telephone Security Group (TSG). This organization serves as the Federal Government and Intelligence Community’s authoritative body for Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) related to telecommunications.
 
These TSG standards are designed to prevent unauthorized audio and video capture, whether through compromised devices, unintended signal leakage, or adversarial exploitation. By requiring the use of approved endpoints and validated countermeasures, TSG compliance ensures that sensitive conversations remain contained within controlled environments. In practice, TSG-compliant voice and video solutions provide a trusted foundation for secure collaboration. They enable users to communicate with confidence, knowing their tools are engineered to meet the demands of the most sensitive operational settings.

Lock Down Your Sensitive Communications.

Download our comprehensive TSG Primer paper to learn more about the path to TSG compliance.

When Communication Is Critical

Protecting sensitive missions from bad actors.

Collaboration technologies are critical to DoD and IC missions. While digital communications have extended agencies’ capabilities to collect intelligence, communicate with partners and execute their missions, they have also extended the attack surface of technologies in an arena that is very attractive to bad actors. TSG provides a roadmap for securing voice and video endpoints so you can communicate and collaborate with confidence over VoIP and protect your devices from eavesdropping, remote access or other actions that threaten your classified communications.

TSG-certified communications are mission-critical.

CIS Secure provides the foundation for TSG-approved solutions for desk phones, softphones and peripherals we develop and manufacture through rigorous processes and approvals. CIS Secure provides pre-approved devices with proven capabilities for some of our nation’s most challenging missions.

TSG for Voice and Video Primer for Protecting Secure Communications

Tap into CIS Secure’s expertise by downloading, TSG for Voice and Video Primer for Protecting Secure Communications. This 15-page TSG Primer paper explores the challenges and intricacies of ensuring TSG-compliant communications and protecting your comms from today’s known and emerging threats.