The Communications Risk Show Commsrisk

The second season of The Communications Risk Show concludes with a special show where we review highlights from the series. Ed Finegold, Lee Scargall and Eric Priezkalns recap the big stories and ask the live audience for their views about emerging threats.



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How much could comms providers increase their profits if they made better use of analytics? Is there a conflict between the apparent certainty of mining data and the inherent uncertainty of managing risk? These questions are addressed by Mike Willett, a Partner in EY’s data analytics and information management practice. Now based in Auckland, Mike has broad experience of working as a manager and consultant for telcos in more than 40 different countries, including 6 years as Director of Fraud and Revenue Assurance at Australian operator Telstra.



Topical news items are also debated by the show’s three regular presenters, industry analyst Ed Finegold, senior risk executive Lee Scargall, and the Editor of Commsrisk, Eric Priezkalns.



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Refiling has become a scourge on the telecoms industry, effectively serving as a tax paid by honest telcos to crooks, before it is passed on to consumers through higher charges overall. However, governments and law enforcement agencies pay no attention to this crime because of the mistaken belief that telcos who systematically cheat other telcos can sustainably lower prices paid by consumers. The authorities take no interest in refiling despite it being another version of the CLI spoofing that is now used by scammers to trick consumers. The failure to act in one domain has spilled over into a much worse societal problem because organized crime is indifferent to whether CLI manipulation is used to enable theft from businesses or from ordinary people. It has been left to telcos to counter this lawlessness, but there are techniques and technologies that can be used to detect and prevent refiling. Arnd Baranowski, CEO of Oculeus, joins us to explain the options available to honest telcos.



Topical news items are also debated by the show’s three regular presenters, industry analyst Ed Finegold, senior risk executive Lee Scargall, and the Editor of Commsrisk, Eric Priezkalns.



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How severe are the risks to the rest of society when hackers are determined to take networks down? Access to mobile networks and the internet has been a game-changer that has improved the lives of billions of people worldwide but this also means the disruption caused by a loss of service can be much more serious. What happens when individuals become dependent on networks for everyday tasks like paying their bus fare, doing their grocery shopping, obtaining credit, and interacting with the government? We talk about the fallout from the Anonymous Sudan attacks on Nigeria, Kenya and other countries, and the wider risk implications of becoming dependent on networks with two guests who will be familiar from previous episodes of the show: Kenyan telecoms consultant Joseph Nderitu, and Nixon Wampamba, currently at MTN Nigeria.



Other topical news are also discussed by the show's three regular presenters, industry analyst Ed Finegold, senior risk executive Lee Scargall, and the Editor of Commsrisk, Eric Priezkalns.



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The global banking system may have already solved the problem of spoofed phone calls and online identities; the solution just needs to be explained to telco regulators and internet engineers. The story begins in the aftermath of the banking crisis of 2007-08, when the leaders of the G20 countries sought to prevent the same thing ever happening again by instituting a Financial Stability Board to monitor global banking. One challenge they faced is the impossibility of knowing how much financial risk is being taken unless you first know about all the banks that exist worldwide, and which banks own which other banks. This was addressed with the creation of the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) in 2014. Some of the problems faced by the global comms industry have similar issues at root. For example, US agencies like the Federal Communications Commission would like to reduce illegal robocalls but they never had a registry of all the comms businesses that make and convey calls within the USA, and their attempts to build a registry for foreign telcos are unlikely to ever succeed. But what if the recipient of a phone call could tell who was phoning them because they were shown a secure digital signature that corresponds to the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) of the originating business? Such a method could obviously be applied to stopping scammers from impersonating banks, but could also be adopted by many other businesses too, and could eventually be generalized so that everybody has their own identifier, using the same technology and series of codes.



The potential to extend the telecoms use of the methods underpinned by GLEIF will be discussed with three expert guests:



- Stephan Wolf, CEO of GLEIF

- Timothy Ruff, blockchain pioneer and General Partner at Digital Trust Ventures

- Randy Warshaw, veteran telecoms executive and CEO of Provenant



Topical news items are also debated by the show’s three regular presenters, industry analyst Ed Finegold, senior risk executive Lee Scargall, and the Editor of Commsrisk, Eric Priezkalns.



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Be sure to regularly visit our main site at https://commsrisk.com to stay informed about risks in the communications industry.

Divya Shridhar, an independent consultant who was formerly a rapidly-rising analytics and assurance manager with BT and Tech Mahindra, gives an interview about how to impress executives with insights gleaned from data, the ways she has overcome adversity in her personal life, and whether new technology will create new ways of finding revenue opportunities and cost savings.



Topical news items are also debated by the show’s three regular presenters, industry analyst Ed Finegold, senior risk executive Lee Scargall, and the Editor of Commsrisk, Eric Priezkalns.



For live shows and past recordings, visit https://tv.commsrisk.com

Be sure to regularly visit our main site at https://commsrisk.com to stay informed about risks in the communications industry.