Recent Articles

• 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.
• 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.
• Black Swan Solution Guide: The IPRN Database and its Use in IRSF & Wangiri Fraud Control — interview with Dan Baker & Colin Yates — The IPRN Database is a powerful new tool for helping control IRSF and Wangiri frauds.  The pioneer of the category explains the value and use of the IPRN Database in this 14-page Black Swan Solution Guide.
• 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.
• White Paper: A Real-Time Cloud Service to Protect the Enterprise PBX from IRSF Fraud — by Dan Baker — Learn how a new cloud-based solution developed by Oculeus, any enterprise can protect its PBX from IRSF fraud for as little as $5 a month.
• WeDo Explores the IoT Ecosystem in Search of Tomorrow’s Pivotal Fraud & Business Assurance Solutions — interview with Carlos Marques — A veteran product manager scans the IoT terrain, discusses key fraud and assurance challenges, and explains the preparatory steps WeDo is taking to become a key player in this emerging market.
• New Report: Telecom Fraud & Business Assurance Solutions, Services & Strategies — by Dan Baker & Luke Taylor & Colin Yates — TRI publishes a new market research report, Telecom Fraud & Business Assurance Solutions, Services & Strategies.  Free executive summary available.
• Big Data without the Database: SIGOS Delivers Purpose-Built Analytics for Mobile Money, Fraud Control & Assurance — interview with Kenneth Mouton — A strategic look at the innovative SIGOS Analytics managed service that leverages purpose-built solutions across many fraud/RA cases such as SIM Box Fraud, Reporting, and Mobile Money.
• Deep Fraud Investigations: Mavenir and the Role of Machine Learning in IRSF Control — interview with Ilia Abramov & Marie Casey — Machine Learning-based fraud protection promises an answer to blocking fraud with precision, especially in roaming and nextgen mobile networks.  An ML champion discusses unusual and interesting fraud schemes uncovered by deep investigations.
• Why SIM Box Bypass Fraud is a Growing Concern in A2P SMS, Especially on the Roaming Side — interview with Philippe Orsini — ASP SMS traffic is a big money maker for operators, but fraudulent routing remains a big issue.  Learn about the highly complex scheme fraudsters use to exploit Europe’s popular roam-like-home tariffs to bypass SMS aggregators and spike up interconnect costs.
• Dynamic Reference Data: How Symmetry Helps O2 UK Simplify its Processes, Reduce Errors, and Keep its Businesses in Synch — interview with Nev Phillips & Luke Taylor — How a master data system can enable an a operator to exploit its reference data to: 1) update linchpin data across the enterprise; 2) simplify complex enterprise processes; and 3) get quick answers to assurance and marketing questions.