Fall Workshop Features Crime-Fighting Tools For "Fraud in a Brave New World"

Wireless Fraud '97, "Fraud in a Brave New World," will be held in Orlando, Florida from Sept. 30 to Oct. 2, 1997.

The workshop, for wireless industry professionals, analysts, government communications officials, and law enforcement officials, is to feature an exposition of fraud-fighting vendors demonstrating their newest anti-fraud products.

Major sponsors of "Fraud in a Brave New World" are Synacom, Corsair, Lightbridge, Motorola, Lucent Technologies, Systems/Link, Boston Communications Group, Cellular Technical Services, Authentix Network, Information Video and GTE Technical Services.

Synacom products protect authentication keys used in IS-41 Authentication. The company's product line includes The Validator(TM) point of sale programming device, The SAMS(TM) Secure A-Key Management System, and The SAC(TM) Secure Authentication Management System. Contact: Leslie Ranney at 408-296-0303 x 134

Corsair Communications expects to unveil its PhonePrint Service Bureau program for fraud protection in smaller markets and rural service areas. PhonePrint is an RF fingerprinting system that prevents cloned cellular phones from gaining access to cellular networks. The system detects illegal phones by measuring in real time each phone's radio signal as it enters the cellular system. Contact: Bill Taliaferro at 415-842-3263

Lightbridge will present the Fraud Sentinel, a series of on-line fraud detection tools that can be used in unison or as individual products to enhance a carrier's existing fraud approach. Contact: Carol Patton at 360-493-6150

Motorola's Fraud Department offers prevention-oriented and investigative services that aggressively promote the prosecution of cellular criminals. Contact: Gregor Gadbaw at 847-632-3778

Lucent Technologies provides its Communications Security Consulting Services, an expansion of Lucent's Wireless Fraud Prevention Service, which includes Wireless Network Security and Data Communications Security Consulting. Contact: Debra Lewis at 908-559-1456

Systems/Link offers RoamEx(TM), a roamer data exchange network for fraud control. RoamEx(TM), with nearly 95% of the North American market, is growing worldwide with installations in Central and South America, Asia, and the Caribbean. Contact: John C. Murphy at 609-371-2000

Boston Communications Group (BCG) develops, markets and provides call processing services, prepaid network services, teleservices, prepaid and voice systems to wireless telephone carriers. With CTIA, BCG created the CTIA-sponsored 1-800-LAWBUST program, which puts law enforcement in direct contact with wireless fraud experts at BCG. Contact: Julie Brenner at 617-692-7000

Cellular Technical Services' Blackbird(R) Platform product line focuses on preventing cloned call attempts in the largest U.S. markets. Contact: Susan Roberts at 206-727-1283

Authentix Network(R) Inc. will demonstrate the AVS Platform including their network-based Roamer Verification Reinstatement (RVR) application and the Intelligent Agent application. Contact: Maxine Carter-Lome at 973-731-2540

GTE Telecommunication Services Inc., based in Tampa, will present information about its validation, verification, authentication and profiling services. Contact: Joe Paz at 813-273-3143

Information Video has produced more than 40 fraud related programs for CTIA and its members over the past four years. Contact: John Spiropoulos at 301-585-1846

Additional exhibitors will include:
Business Transactions Express (BTE), a leading provider of risk management solutions to credit grantors across the country. Contact: 320-253-6886

CIBERNET, a provider of financial net settlements for intercarrier roamer billings. Contact: Alexa Graf at 202-496-0664

CMG Telecommunications, which protects European and Asian analog networks. Contact: Marielle Lenferink at +31 30 233 9300

Coral Systems, whose FraudBuster(TM) software is designed to aid in identifying new types of fraud. Contact: Nancy Laundy at 303-772-5800

Communications Test Instruments, which has introduced and released the Locator MDF(TM) Mapping Direction Finder for cellular fraud investigations, wireless wiretap, and E911 cellular phone location. U.S. Contact: Peter Sturdivant at 207-985-7076

Digital Equipment Corporation, whose DIGITAL Fraud Management System detects many types of fraudulent telecommunications activity. Contact: Ken Vonasek at 508-496-8659

The Guidry Group, a security, consulting, and investigations firm specializing in fraud management and loss prevention consulting services intended to support modern cellular and PCS business practices. Contact: Michael A. Guidry at 281-363-1300.

Hewlett-Packard, who will demonstrate the HP acceSS7 fraud-management toolkit, which enables operators to detect fraud in real-time. Contact: Jim Black at +44 131 331 6024.

ILLUMINET, whose fraud detection and prevention services include Authentication Center, Roamer On-line Support Services (ROSS(R)) and AVS Express(SM). Contact: Nancy Jackson at 360-493-6235.

Magardi Solutions, whose tele-felony countermeasure, OUTsmart, uses Smart Patterns to provide case management and decision support for fraud control. Contact: Rene Seguin at 613-226-1250.

National Fraud Center, which offers a near real-time system to identify wireless fraud. NFC provides fraud prevention and interdiction programs to multisector industries, law firms and government agencies. Contact: James P. Kerins, III at 215-657-0800.

PADCOM, who will demonstrate its Remote Data System, which provides the core enabling components and management tools necessary to create a wireless data network using voice radio systems. Contact: Kate Bochonko at 212-213-7061.

Pen-Link, Ltd., offering Version 6.0, a call detail record analysis, intelligence and investigative assistant program that provides databases to automatically load call records and subscriber records to identify patterns, links and methods of operations that are being used by cloners. Contact: Mike Murman at 402-421-8857.

Professional Security Bureau, which operates the Wireless Fraud Association (WFA), combining the resources of fraud specialists with consultants and investigators to provide investigative services to the wireless industry. Contact: Lex Wilkinson at 610-258-2707.

Subscriber Computing, Inc., which licenses FraudWatch Pro(R) and Intelligent PIN(TM). Contact: Mike Pelzman at 714-260-1500.

WOW-COM which offers the Wireless Daily News, the Career Center, a virtual trade show, Wall Street Watch and wireless financial news, and a Convention Information Center. Contact: Heidi Fincken at 202-785-0081.

WheelGroup Corp., presenting NetRanger(TM) intrusion detection system, which automatically denies access to the intruder, and reports details of the intrusion to a centralized management system to alert network operations personnel in real-time. Contact: Doug Webster at 210-494-3383.

Edited by Beth Brindle