IPTEGO Launching PALLADION Fraud Detection and Prevention for a Real-Time Protec tion Against Toll Fraud IPTEGO

presents PALLADION Fraud Detection & Prevention, an innovative protection for CSPs and their customers against toll fraud. Berlin, Germany, February 08, 2012 -- IPTEGO presents PALLADION Fraud Detection & Prevention, an innovative protection for CSPs and their customers against toll fraud. With PALLADION Fraud Detection & Prevention, IPTEGO provides an answer to a grow ing demand for more network security when it comes to toll fraud. Todays Communic ation Service Providers (CSPs) are reportedly facing increasing issues with upco ming attacks from hackers, who not only hit the service providers with their att acks, but also affect significantly their customer base and the service quality they experience. According to a recent survey from the Communications Fraud Control Association ( CFCA), the global fraud loss estimate for 2011 was $40.1 Billion USD (31 Mrd. Eu ro), whereas small businesses are equally hit as large CSPs. Existing methods to detect toll fraud rely on the CDRs from your switch and these need to be correlat ed from multiple sites. This can take tens of minutes up to multiple of hours. B y this time, tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars have been lost. PALLADION Fraud Detection & Prevention spots these attacks in 2-3 seconds and closes them down in real-time, according to your policy via the SBC or other network element s says Richard Jobson, President of Teraquant, a technology partner of IPTEGO ba sed in Colorado, USA. Based on the proven PALLADION monitoring and customer experience technology, IPT EGO is extending its product portfolio of the PALLADION Software Suite with a so lution specialized in the fraud protection of LTE, IMS, and VoIP networks. The f lexible and lightweight installed solution adapts with ease to the requirements of smaller carriers and larger Tier 1 carriers as well. The beauty of PALLADION F raud Detection & Prevention comes from its high usability, and of course from th e detection and prevention of fraudulent incidents in near real-time, which allo ws a very fast reaction upon the fraud attacks. This helps service providers to stop fraud before significant operational losses occur, explained Ulrich Abend, C OO of IPTEGO. The mechanism behind the performance of PALLADION Fraud Detection & Prevention r elies on an automated behavior analysis, a strategy that is difficult to scam. B y analyzing and detecting the symptoms of fraud incidents in the network rather than looking for the reasons of how such an incident could happen, the solution provides an unique value, as any PALLADION Fraud Detection & Prevention user is protected against fraud attacks no matter of the attack method. Once an increasi ng set of deviations occur in the user specific behavioral patterns and a critic al threshold has been passed, PALLADION Fraud Detection & Prevention intervenes actively by raising an alert message to the user in real-time. The user then can pro-actively decide if this call needs to be blocked by a special SBC API integ ration. PALLADION Fraud Detection & Prevention is not only very efficient and fast in th e process of detecting fraud, but also is a smart solution that doesnt necessaril y require a configuration, as it comes with a pre-set of rules that can be used right away. Furthermore, PALLADION Fraud Detection & Prevention is self-learning and keeps track of evolving trends in the user behavior, which makes it a futur e-proof solution against all types of future attack methods. About IPTEGO IPTEGO provides Next Generation Network optimization. The worlds major Communicat

ions Service Providers rely on IPTEGOs PALLADION Software Suite to enhance their ROI from IP-based core networks such as LTE, IMS and VoIP. PALLADION analyzes Ne xt Generation Networks from any vendor to provide real-time network intelligence , troubleshooting, customer experience monitoring, fraud prevention and seamless integration of third-party products. Utilizing PALLADION allows operators to se curely and quickly migrate to IP-based networks, reduce operational costs, gener ate additional revenue and minimize churn. To learn more about IPTEGO, please visit: www.iptego.com About Teraquant Founded in 2001, Teraquant is an owner-operated Test Solutions company staffed w ith technical specialists with decades of experience in Telecommunications Test and Monitoring. Teraquant is dedicated to supply test solutions that precisely m atch the needs of its customers and support them with an in-depth expertise with proactive and immaculate professionalism in network deployments and value added services. The companys customers include most of the major leading telecom equip ment vendors and service providers in North America. Teraquant Corporation is a Value-Added Integrator for Voice and VoIP Network Man agement and test solutions and is a long-term technology partner and distributor of IPTEGO. To learn more about Teraquant, please visit: http://www.teraquant.co m Sources: The Communications Fraud Control Association: The Global Fraud Loss Survey 2011. T o request the report of the Global Fraud Loss Survey 2011, please contact: fraud @cfca.org Press Contact: Claire Gruener IPTEGO GmbH Wittenbergplatz 1 10789 Berlin, Germany +4930203899919 claire.gruener@iptego.com http://www.iptego.com