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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

Groupon: Why Revenue Recognition Matters

The recent blizzard of stories about Groupon, the online deals site, highlights all kinds of risk areas, from unhappy execs leaving soon after joining,...

Subex Divests ex-Syndesis Assets

Indian RA giant Subex has announced the sale of the Activation wing of its business to Netcracker; see the press release here. Netcracker...

Crowdsourcing Security

The old proverb says that "if you want a thing done well, do it yourself". Rubbish. If you want a thing done...

IT Project Risk: Black Swans Turn White

One in every six IT projects suffers a cost overrun of 200% or more. That is the startling conclusion of new research by...

WeDo Sells Prepaid Rating Assurance to Vodafone Czech Republic

Vodafone Czech Republic has successfully implemented WeDo's rating validation software, which will be used to assure the rating of prepaid calls. The agreed...

Everyday Risk Management and Being ‘Proactive’

Norman Marks of SAP maintains an excellent blog dedicated to governance, risk management and internal audit. For those not familiar with it, I...

Turkish DNS Hijackers Highlight Internet Vulnerabilities

On Sunday there were red faces of embarrassment and red faces of anger as Turkish hacker group Turkguvenligi successfully hijacked the DNS records of...

BT Battles Cable Theft in Northern Ireland

Criminals that steal copper cables are a plague on telcos, in both rich and poor countries. They disrupt services to customers, drive up...

Irene: Losing and Gaining

They say every cloud has a silver lining. Finding an upside to tropical storm Irene, which battered the East coast of the USA,...

Bias in Risk Assessment

If you want to be a realist, start by being a pessimist. It sounds miserable, but the psychological evidence is compelling. Most...

Send Text, Take Car

Can you steal a car with an SMS message? Apparently so...You can read the Associated Press' version of this security story here.Of course,...

Record USD5M Overbilling Fine Issued by UK Regulator

The UK's comms regulator, Ofcom, has issued fines worth GBP3M (USD5M) to UK comms providers TalkTalk and Tiscali. This is the most severe...

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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