Risk, Fraud & Security
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,...
New ISO Standard Aligns Information Security Risk to ERM
Risk management is dogged by too many separate camps, doing their own thing, calling it risk management, and oblivious to the different way that...
Canadian Management Accountants Respond to Risk
Though not specific to telcos, I thought it worth sharing an excellent report from an unexpected source. Eric Krell of The Society of Management...
Panel on RA and Fraud Maturity at WeDo’s WUG
Kudos goes to WeDo for sharing some of the content from their big annual user group get-together, the 'WUG'. Their panel session featured...
Reflecting on Human Capital Risk
Check out this interesting press release about risk and Human Resources. To summarize, it argues the kinds of risks managed as a silo...
New Survey Highlights Top Threats
Anything that might be called a threat to the business could just as well be called a risk to the business - we know...
A Business Unit for Every Kind of Customer?
The other day I was asked an intriguing question by Dan Baker of B/OSS World and the RA Roundtable: what if a large telco...
Collins and Silvestre on M2M and NFC Assurance
Look here for an interesting interview of Simon Collins and Sergio Silvestre by Alex Leslie. The WeDo duo talked about the fraud and...
Taking a Robust Approach to Accenture’s Research
On the surface, Accenture's 2011 report into risk managment for comms and tech firms tells us a generally positive story. Businesses are taking...
MACH Acquires OpTel Informatik
MACH, the global clearing house business, has purchased fraud management vendor OpTel Informatik for an undisclosed sum; see here for the press release on...
Virtual Currency Under Fire
Fans of Bitcoin, the digital currency, will tell you it is safer, cheaper, freer and more transparent than ordinary state-backed currencies. The currency...
Who owns Risk?
An interesting article from CFO.com.In my limited exposure to risk management organisation design I have never encountered risk being owned by the CFO....
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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