KFraud

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Setting Group
KFraud
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Introduction

• According to a report from Chorleywood Consulting
  the Fraud in Telecommunication worldwide reaches
  28 billions of dollars per year (20 in the
  wire-line and 8 for the wireless network ), with
  an increase trend of 2 billions per year.
• In order to resolve the problem, Sue Hubbard,
  manager of the research department in
  Chorleywood, suggests the use of a system that
  monitors the fraud and guaranties completely
  the security of the company s information.

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Introduction

• Types of Fraud
• Insider
• Technical Frauds
• PBX
• Phone Cards
• Prepaid
• Social Engineering

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Definition
Scope of a software system for the fraud
prevention is to minimize the timeframe between
the instant in which the fraud starts and the
instant in which it will be discovered.
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Setting Solution...

• Since 1993 we cooperate with telecommunication
  companies for the development and integration of
  fraud management systems (TIM, TIM Hellas,
  Mobilkom Austria, Amena Spain, Telecom Italy)
• Completely developed in-house
• Uses HW and SW standard
• Easy and fast personalization
• Generates different types of alarms based on the
  call duration, cost of the calls, volume of the
  data transferred, on daily, weekly and monthly
  bases, etc.

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Architecture

• Windows 2003 Server
• DBMS Oracle 9.x
• Client/Server (2 tiers)
• Core developed in C
• Scalability
• Specialized in parallel traffic engines.

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Network Architecture
Automatic signaled data
Traffic data
Other System
Signaled data interaction
KFraud Server
Mediation device
Operator client
Administrator client
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Functionality

• Notification of the alarms via e-mail and/or fax
• Reports
• Integrate Rating Engine
• Import of tariff plans and user profiles
• Gateways versus OSS/BSS and CRM Systems
• Security handling (Smart Cards optional)
• Handling of the system Logs
• Automated Data Backup

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Integration

• Mediation Systems
• (ASN.1, Nortel, Openet ...)
• TAP2 e TAP3 ( Mobile Operators )
• Customer Care and Billing Systems
• External alarms (surveillance system )

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Fraud Detection

• Blacklist checking
• International Suspicious Countries
• Suspicious Areas
• User Profile
• Thresholds
• The Operators can keep track of different types
  of services
• Wireless GSM, Data, GPRS and UMTS.
• Fixed Lines and PBX
• Phone cards

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Fraud Detection

• Collisions and Velocity (Wireless)
• Detection at number level
• IMSI (Wireless)
• MSISDN
• Personalization of parameters
• Subscribers groups, Call and service patterns,
  Blacklists, suspicious areas and countries.

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Fraud Analysis

• Analysis of external alarms
• Severity of each alarm
• Number of alarms of a specific type
• Service of personal profile
• Function of calls archiving

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Advantages

• Availability of a complete solution for fraud
  prevention.
• Ratio costs/benefits competitive.
• Flexible and fast personalization.