Recent Articles

• A&B Handshake: A Simple Way to Control Voice Fraud via an Out-of-Band Connection between A & B Operators — interview with Sergey Okhrimenko — An A&B operator handshake provides a simple, low-cost way to deliver an out-of-band connection to identify fraudulent voice calls in real-time, better manage fraud disputes, and pave the way for greater law enforcement help.
• Black Swan Solution Guide: SHAKEN / STIR Calling Number Verification & Fraud Alerting — interview with Chris Drake & Gary Richenaker — SHAKEN/STIR is the telecom industry’s first step toward reviving trust in business telephony — and has recently launched in the U.S. market.  This Solution Guide features commentary from technology leaders at iconetiv, a firm heavily involved in the development of SHAKEN.
• NuData Analyzes Behaviors to Stop Automated Fraud Attacks & Identify Fake Customers Inside the Firewall — interview with Robert Capps — A cybercrime expert examines the role of behavioral analysis and explains why it’s critical even when the device identity is known.  He also explains how human-like automation is detected and why an analysis of browser level activity delivers an extra edge in identifying fraud attacks.
• Positive’s Research Keeps Telecoms One Step Ahead of Signaling Hackers and Fraud Disasters — interview with Jimmy Jones — And joining us to discuss signaling threats and protection techniques is Jimmy Jones, Positive Technologies’ Telecom Business Development Lead. Jimmy does a great job of simplifying An expert on signaling security: walks through signaling threats; shows how hackers penetrate and capture IMSIs; analyzes the growing signaling bypass threat; and explains the strategies taken by security-savvy telecoms.
• Senet’s Cloud & Shared Gateways Drive LoRaWAN IoT Adoption for Enterprise Businesses, Smart Cities & Telecoms — interview with Bruce Chatterley — An IoT netowork pioneer explains how LoRaWAN tech fits in the larger IoT ecosystem.  He gives use case examples, describes deployment restraints/costs, and shows how partnering, gateway sharing, and flexible deployment options are stimulating growth.
• Subex’s COO: Machine Learning, Disruption & Adaptive Biz Models to Impact Telecoms in 2020 — interview with Shankar Roddam — In our dynamic and digital-driven world, telecoms and enterprises face many business risks.  So what can you do to plot a successful future?  Hear 5 prophecies on 2020 telecom trends from the Chief Operating Officer of Subex.
• Allot’s Mobile Security: Network-based Protection that 21 Million Consumers & SMBs Subscribe to — at One Euro a Month — interview with Moshe Elias — Protecting mobile users from online threats is a major opportunity for telecoms and a service very much in demand.  Learn about the adoption, challenges, and marketing innovations driving mobile device cybersecurity protection.
• How Thales Embeds Comms Security for Electronic OEMs & Telecoms Delivering Next Generation IoT Systems & Services — interview with Stephen Spellicy — How high-speed communications, advanced security and analytics technology gets delivered to the IoT OEMs and telecom providers.  Learn why security, performance, cost and reliability are key IoT challenges.
• A WeDo Conference Talk: Consulting & Analytics: Improving your Business Today, Enhancing it Tomorrow — interview with Carla Cardoso & Bernado Lucas & Thomas Steagall — Leading risk management consultants explain their mission and walk-through RA, subscription fraud, and collections cases.  They also explain how analytics and machine learning can supplement process optimization.
• Subex Exploits its Deep Research of Global IoT Threats to Win Telecom, Industrial, and Automotive OEM Clients — interview with Kiran Zachariah — A leader in IoT security monitoring and protection services explains the many challenges of IoT security and how his firm is exploiting its deep research and honeypots to protect telecom, industrial, and automotive OEM clients.
• PrologMobile’s Simple and Brilliant Plan to Save US MNOs Billions a Year in Recovered Phones & Retained Customers — interview with Seth Heine — An expert in the mobile phone reverse supply chain explains how MNOs — via a neutral third party information exchange — can recover their original phones on the used market and save huge sums in multi-year customer retention.
• ARM Data Center Software’s Cloud-Based Network Inventory Links Network, Operations, Billing, Sales & CRM to One Database — interview with Joe McDermott & Frank McDermott — A firm offering a cloud-based network inventory system explains the virtues of: a single underlying database, flexible conversions, task-checking workflow, new software business models, views that identify stranded assets, and connecting to Microsoft’s cloud platform.
• Tethering Fraud: How Guavus Blocks the Pumping of Mobile Data Traffic and Tools Up to Deliver 5G Service Management — interview with Kent McIntosh & David Yates — How is analytics being applied to next generation data threats?  Learn how tethering fraud occurs and is detected.  Also discussed are: data volume reduction at the network edge, IoT fraud concerns, and automating the healing of high-quality 5G data services.
• How GBSD Enables Advanced and Flexible Real-Time Fraud Blocking with its High-Trust, Mobile-Network-Embedded Softswitch — interview with Jeffrey Ross — Learn about a close-to-the-network platform that blocks mobile fruad, Reading a variety of protocols and integrated with external applications, it’s being used to combat: Wangiri, IRSF, SIM box bypass, and mobile money fraud.