Risk, Fraud & Security
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,...
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...
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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