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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 RA challenges posed by machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, and near field communications (NFC). Their main thrust was that businesses will need to think differently in order to manage the risks, as was highlighted by Collins with this story:In South Africa there was an experiment with traffic light monitoring and phasing. Something was wrong, but the supervision was inadequate and when the service provider finally checked they found that people had been stealing the SIM cards out of the traffic lights – hundreds of them.

Look here for an interesting interview of Simon Collins and Sergio Silvestre by Alex Leslie. The WeDo duo talked about the fraud and RA challenges posed by machine-to-machine (M2M) communications, and near field communications (NFC). Their main thrust was that businesses will need to think differently in order to manage the risks, as was highlighted by Collins with this story:

In South Africa there was an experiment with traffic light monitoring and phasing. Something was wrong, but the supervision was inadequate and when the service provider finally checked they found that people had been stealing the SIM cards out of the traffic lights – hundreds of them.

Eric Priezkalns
Eric Priezkalnshttp://revenueprotect.com

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.

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