Lighter side- Dept. of Fraud

Podcast: Humbug Labs' Eric Klein on Telecom Fraud

Interview piece: Humbug to Weigh in on Cloud Communications, Fraud Detection at ITEXPO

I was interviewed for an article in the January 23, 2012 infoTECH Spotlight titled Humbug to Weigh in on Cloud Communications, Fraud Detection at ITEXPO 

Term Tuesdays - Types of Solutions for Telecom Fraud Prevention

Over the next few weeks I will be discussing different solution types for preventing Telecom Fraud. These will include but are not limited to:

• Cloud based
• Premises based
• Carrier Based 

More coming next week.

Not exactly fraud - How To Prevent An Illicit Data Dump

I realize that this is not directly related to fraud, but with the news of hacking of sites to get passwords etc from RSA to credit cards, I decided to pass this on:

Dark reading has a good basic article on How To Prevent An Illicit Data Dump that is a summary of a research report that they did.

[Excerpted from "How to Prevent an Illicit Data Dump," a new report posted this week on Dark Reading's Insider Threat Tech Center.] The headline occurs almost every day lately -- a large enterprise or government agency loses a huge cache of data through the actions of an employee. Whether it's a malicious theft and posting, a la WikiLeaks, or an unintentional compromise of sensitive business information, the affected organization is put in a position of serious risk

 Now the report and article offer a lot of advice that can come down to setting proper rules and employee misconduct which can lead to data breaches or Telecom Fraud.

Set your rules, enforce them:

• Set password rules
• Monitor activity
• Educate your employees