Recent Articles

• Webinar: Wangiri Warriors: Solutions & Strategies for Fighting Call Back Fraud — interview with Arnd Baranowski & John Haraburda & Igor Skutsenya & Colin Yates — A virtual webinar where four telecom fraud control experts give their perspective on Wangiri, the callback fraud.  They discusses strategies and explain the solutions they offer to service providers.
• Black Swan Guide: Lanck Telecom’s Voice FMS as an On-Demand Network Service — interview with Igor Skutsenya — A Guide to a new and unique on-demand network service enabling fraud-risky international voice traffic to be monitored (and either alerted or blocked) as that traffic is routed through a wholesaler on its way to its final destinations.
• 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.
• SAS Manages an Analytics Hub of Internal, 3rd Party, and AI Data for Telco-Specific, Holistic Fraud Solutions — interview with Sundeep Tengur — A leading cross-industry fraud analytics firm provides: a picture of telecom threats; perspective on subscription and onboarding fraud; parallels to fraud control in banking; and a rundown on its telco-specific approach to solving fraud problems in a holistic way.
• 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.
• LexisNexis Takes Identity Risk from Physical/Biometric to Network-Behavior-Sharing with 7,000 Digital Businesses — interview with Jason Lane-Sellers — An partner-network enabled identity  verification system is used by some of the largest financial and e-commerce firms in the world.  Learn how this new paradigm may revolutionize current identity and fraud control operations.
• 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.
• Lanck Telecom Raises Fraud Alarm for International Brands, Enterprise Call Centers & Carriers: Beware of Wangiri 2.0 — interview with Sergey Okhrimenko — An international wholesaler gives details about a new traffic pumping fraud dubbed Wangiri 2.0.  The fraud is hard to detect and targets businesses who do lots of international calling.
• 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.