We’re sure you’re familiar with the nuisance that is a spam call. You’ve probably had to deal with the incessant ringing from phone numbers you don’t know, just to finally answer the phone to a prerecorded robotic voice on the other end of the line. While we all know this experience far too well, there […]
In today’s technology-dominated world where much of our interactions happen over the phone or online, it’s more important than ever to keep our identities and information protected. That’s where STIR/SHAKEN comes in. STIR/SHAKEN stands for Secure Telephone Identity Revisited (STIR) and Signature-based Handling of Asserted Information using toKENs (SHAKEN). This makes up a set of […]
Jim McEachern of ATIS, Jeffrey Ross of GBSD Technologies and Sergey Okhrimenko of LANCK Telecom tell Eric Priezkalns about which methods they each advocate for validating the origin of calls and preventing CLI spoofing. These methods include STIR/SHAKEN and the A&B Number Handshake.
The spoofing of calling line identification (CLI), also known as caller ID, is exploited by fraudsters around the world. Regular presenters Eric Priezkalns and Lee Scargall speak to Pedro Rabacal, CTO of Vodacom Mozambique, and Jeffrey Ross of GBSD Technologies and 1Route about the issues and new solutions that are in development.
Eric and Lee discuss recent telecoms news including the Covid19 impact and response and then discuss the STIR/SHAKEN protocol with our special guest Jeffrey Ross, COO of GBSD Technologies.