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Eric Priezkalns

During his career, Eric has been a Director of Risk Management for a national telco, the Chief Executive of the Risk & Assurance Group, a Chief Marketing Officer for a software business, a consultant, a public speaker and the publisher of Commsrisk since its launch in 2006. Look here for more about the history of Commsrisk and the role played by Eric.

The comms providers that Eric has worked for include Qatar Telecom, Cable & Wireless, T‑Mobile, Sky and Worldcom. In addition to his proficiency at speaking about the current scamdemic, Eric is also a qualified chartered accountant and a subject matter expert in consumer protection, enterprise risk management, fraud prevention, data integrity and billing accuracy. Eric was the lead author of Revenue Assurance: Expert Opinions for Communications Providers, published by CRC Press. He can be reached through the contact form on this website.

Articles by This Author

Rethinking the Risk of USB Sticks

In an excellent interview for Black Swan, Mark Johnson convincingly argued that cybersecurity and business assurance are converging. Towards the end of the...

Do Wrong Tariffs Cost UK Consumers $9bn?

Perhaps we should congratulate the revenue maximizers who work for UK telcos, because the BBC recently reported that they generate an extra GBP6bn (USD9bn)...

Map of the Internet’s ‘Bad Neighbourhoods’

What are the 'bad neighbourhoods' of the internet? They are the networks where malicious sources of malware and spam are most often found....

A Story About Growth

cVidya, the Israeli software vendors, have announced that Dr. Steffen Roehn will join their advisory board; see the press release here. Roehn was...

Obama Administration: Right to Unlock Phones is ‘Common Sense’

We recently wrote about the US petition to allow mobile phones to be unlocked, which was prompted by a change in the application of...

WeDo Report Strong Annual Results; Seeks M&A target in SE Asia

When I was invited to WeDo's London presentation of their 2012 results, I immediately jumped to two conclusions. First, I guessed the results...

Obscure Data, Mysterious Calculations, Real Risks

Rules of thumb, if used appropriately, can be powerful tools for reminding and educating people about risk. Consider Murphy's Law, which says "anything...

Obama Petitioned to Allow Phone Unlocking

Vinton Cerf may be called one of the 'fathers of the internet', but he hardly ever uses Twitter. However, a little tweet from...

MACH ‘First’ to Offer Cloud-Based Revenue Assurance (only 3 years after rivals)

MACH, specialists in mobile roaming data and clearing, has issued a new press release which......revealed the telecom industry’s first revenue assurance solution available over...

WeDo Release RAID 7.0

WeDo, the Portuguese-based business assurance vendor, have announced the release of version 7 of their RAID business assurance suite; see here.The pitch is glossy....

Modest Subex Q3 Results

Subex, the Indian revenue assurance vendor, has released the figures for the third quarter of FY13; see their press release here.The figures show improvement...

Anonymous Target Criminalization of TOS Violations

Given the track record of Anonymous, the faceless group of hacker vigilantes, it would be easy to dismiss their latest attack on the US...

The Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard


Our Global Fraud Dashboard uses AI-powered search to collate, update and visualize data about scams and other network abuses from around the world. New charts are added each month. See it here.

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