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.
• Black Swan Solution Guide: Getting Porting History & Carrier Data to Verify Identity & Mitigate Account Takeovers — by Kathy Timko — Learn about a recently approved risk intelligence service to receive authoritative and real-time notices of numbers being ported and changes to the carrier-of-record for specific telephone numbers.
• 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.
• 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.
• A Black Swan Solution Guide: The Value of an Authoritative Database of Global Telephone Numbers in Fraud Control — interview with John Haraburda — Learn about an authoritative database of allocated numbers and special number ranges in every country of the world.  The expert explains how this database adds value to any FMS or fraud analyst team.
• 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.
• Moments Matter in Blocking Identity Fraud: Why Number Porting Data is a Vital Tool in Stopping Account Takeovers — interview with Kathy Timko — Matching the porting history of a telephone number to a carrier of record is now crucial to identity/credit checks by financial, healthcare, and other firms in the U.S. Learn how fraudsters exploit carrier porting processes to perform account takeover in 10 minutes; and why freshly updated porting data is needed to combat $17 billion in identity fraud.