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BankNewport Ensures Secure Global Banking with TeleSign 2FA
Los Angeles, Calif. - May 22, 2012 - TeleSign, a market leader in Internet fraud prevention, and Intelligent Authentication, today announced the implementation of its tokenless Two-Factor Authentication to secure online customer account access for BankNewport. The integration of TeleSign’s user authentication is a firm step toward meeting the FFIEC guidance and providing strong security for online accounts using the phone to verify the identity of online banking customers.
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How can agencies quickly and cost-effectively achieve CJIS compliance
Chris Jensen, Business Development, TeleSign - In 1992, the FBI established its Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) division. It is the largest division of the FBI and it provides state, local, and federal law enforcement and criminal justice agencies with access to centralized information, such as fingerprint identification records, criminal histories and sex offender registrations. Due to the extreme sensitivity of this information, the agency has mandated enhanced security measures to protect access to it.
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Comodo and TeleSign Partner to Deliver Intelligent Authentication
Los Angeles, CA and Jersey City, NJ – May 15, 2012 – Comodo, a leading Internet security provider, and TeleSign, the market leader in Internet fraud prevention and Intelligent Authentication, announce their joint layered security solution combining the strengths of digital certificates and out-of-band phone-based authentication.
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TeleSign Brings Enhanced PhoneID 2.0 Product to the U.K. and Germany
Los Angeles – May 15, 2012 – TeleSign, a market leader in Internet fraud prevention and Intelligent Authentication, today announced an upgrade of its PhoneID solution for the United Kingdom and Germany. Online businesses use PhoneID to automate fraud prevention and protect against spam and fraudulent activity.
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TeleSign Teams With Intel to Provide Complete Two-Factor Authentication Solutions For Consumers and Enterprises
Los Angeles, May 9, 2012 - TeleSign, a market leader in Internet fraud prevention and intelligent authentication, announced today that they are working with Intel Corporation to pair the security provided by Intel Identity Protection Technology (Intel IPT) and TeleSign Two-Factor Authentication.
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TeleSign Announces May as User Authentication Awareness Month
Los Angeles, May 1, 2012 - TeleSign Corporation, market leader in Internet fraud prevention and Intelligent Authentication, today announced May as User Authentication Awareness Month. TeleSign is committed to stopping online fraud and launches this awareness campaign to improve and educate consumers and businesses on the security measures taken to protect account access.
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TeleSign Offers an Exclusive Look into the Mind of a Fraudster
Los Angeles, April 18, 2012 - Fraudsters are able to scam and steal for a living using a number of profitable techniques and tools. TeleSign gained access to the underground world of fraud with Tony Sales – a convicted fraudster and one of Britain’s most successful career criminals.
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TeleSign to Speak at Merchant Risk Council European Congress
Los Angeles, April 18, 2012 - Ronda Sifford, MRC Board Member, and Ryan Disraeli, VP of Fraud Services of TeleSign, will take a deep dive into the inner workings of organized crime and some of the tactics and characteristics that have been existent for hundreds of years and how they’ve transferred into the cyber world.
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Seasoned Tech CFO Matthew Hardy Joins TeleSign’s Executive Team
Los Angeles, April 18, 2012 - TeleSign, a market leader in Internet fraud prevention and Intelligent Authentication, today announced the appointment of Matthew Hardy, as Chief Financial Officer. Hardy brings over fifteen years of financial expertise in both the technology and financial sectors with a specific focus on SaaS. He will oversee all of TeleSign’s fiscal initiatives, positioning the company for continued success and growth.
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Fraud Growth Ramps Up International Prevention
April 15, 2012 | Robert McGarvey Lose a few million dollars on a wire transfer to Toledo, Ohio, and procedures are in place to get it back in many instances. But when that transfer is to Kiev, kiss the money goodbye.
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How to Safeguard Your Privacy During a Job Hunt
April 3, 2012 | Sue Marquette Poremba There is no such thing as privacy on the Internet. This became even clearer in the past few weeks, when news broke about employers who asked job-seekers for their Facebook passwords in order to vet the interviewees' personal lives.
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iovation and TeleSign Pair Device Reputation Management With Intelligent Authentication to Fight Online Fraud
PORTLAND, Ore. and LOS ANGELES, Calif. – March 26, 2012 iovation, the Device Reputation Authority™ protecting online businesses from fraud and abuse, and TeleSign, a market leader in Internet fraud prevention and Intelligent Authentication, today announced a partnership to offer iovation’s ReputationManager 360 solution with TeleSign 2FA, TeleSign Verify and PhoneID. This marks the first time a phone-based authentication service has been paired with a global device reputation tool to fight online fraud.
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MRC Attendees “Don’t Gamble with your Fraud Solutions” for a chance to win up to $100 in Poker Chips at MRC Las Vegas 2012
Los Angeles – March 21, 2012 – Visit TeleSign at booth #214 for a chance to win up to $100 in poker chips!
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Subuno Partners with TeleSign to Identify High-Risk Transactions and Recover Profitable Orders
Los Angeles and New York - March 20, 2012 - TeleSign, a market leader in Internet fraud prevention and intelligent authentication, and Subuno, a fraud prevention SaaS platform that aggregates fraud screening data solutions, today announced a partnership to offer Telesign’s PhoneID within the Subuno platform.
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eCommerce Growth and eCommerce Fraud Go Hand in Hand
by Walter Gallocher, eCommerce Specialist, TeleSign - Global online sales have enjoyed double digit growth the past few years, with total transactions projected to top $210 billion in 2012. Unfortunately, with the massive growth in e-commerce also comes a corresponding growth in associated cybercrime.
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TeleSign Selected as the 2012 InfoSec Global Product Excellence Award Winner for Fraud Prevention
Los Angeles – March 8, 2012 – TeleSign, a market leader in Internet fraud prevention and Intelligent Authentication, today announced that Info Security Products Guide, the industry's leading information security research and advisory guide, named TeleSign’s Telephone Verification the winner in the Fraud Prevention category in their 2012 Global Excellence Awards. More than 50 judges from a broad spectrum of industry voices determined the 2012 Global Excellence Awards Finalists and Winners.
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BYOD Smartphones, PCs and Tablets Raise Big Security Risks, Experts Say
March 5, 2012 | Jacqueline Emigh Although employees like bringing their smartphones to work with them, and employers are letting them do so, new research released at this week's RSA Conference shows that BYOD (bring your own device) raises security risks. Also at RSA, though, security vendors announced new technologies that might help to make BYOD a safer practice.
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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign
February 21, 2012 | Benjamin F. Kuo Steve Jillings has a long track record of running successful startups in Southern California, ranging from such companies as FrontBridge Technologies (sold to Microsoft in 2005 for over $200M) and Vantage Media (acquired in 2007).
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TeleSign Receives Patent for TeleBureau: the First Phone-Number Based Clearinghouse for Online Fraud
Los Angeles – Feb. 21, 2012 – TeleSign, a market leader in Internet fraud prevention and Intelligent Authentication, today announced the U.S. Patent Office’s award of Patent No. 8,117,106 for TeleSign’s TeleBureau, a clearinghouse for submission of fraud activity from online businesses and merchants. Patented on February 14, 2012, TeleBureau will serve as a resource for defrauded websites to easily report fraud and cybercrime.
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TeleSign Challenges RSA Attendees to - Guess The Answer to My Challenge Question - at RSA Conference 2012
Los Angeles – Feb.1, 2012– Visit TeleSign at booth #432 and guess the answer to common challenge questions by scanning social media profiles.
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TeleSign Further Strengthens Management Team; Appoints Max Powers as Vice President, Client Services
Los Angeles – Jan. 31, 2012– TeleSign, a market leader in Internet fraud prevention and Intelligent Authentication, today announced the addition of Max Powers, as Vice President, Client Services. Powers brings her extensive background and experience to the management team where she is developing the strategic objectives required to ensure outstanding service for TeleSign’s growing client and partner roster.
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TeleSign Positioned as a Visionary in the Magic Quadrant for User Authentication
Los Angeles – Jan. 24, 2012 – TeleSign, a market leader in Internet fraud prevention and intelligent authentication, today announced that the company has been positioned as a Visionary by Gartner, Inc. in the “Magic Quadrant for User Authentication” published on January 17, 2012, available to all Gartner research subscribers.
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How to Protect Customers from Online Fraud
Los Angeles – Feb. 3, 2012– Forewarned is forearmed, says the old adage, and that's certainly the case for solution providers specializing in the area of Internet security. Fixing a breach and dealing with its consequences is costly and time consuming. Brenna Lenoir, Marketing Manager of TeleSign Corp., discusses Intelligent Authentication with your phone.
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MaxMind and TeleSign Partner to Provide Best-in-Class Multilayer Fraud Prevention
Los Angeles and Boston – Jan. 17, 2012 — TeleSign, a market leader in Internet fraud prevention and user authentication, and MaxMind, a leading provider of IP geolocation and online fraud detection solutions, announce the availability of the minFraud service, integrated with TeleSign Telephone Verification and PhoneID.
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TeleSign Named Best Fraud Prevention Finalist in Info Security Products Global Excellence Award
Los Angeles – December 22, 2011 – TeleSign announced today that Info Security Products Guide, the industry's leading information security research and advisory guide, has named TeleSign’s Telephone Verification, as a Best Fraud Prevention finalist for the 2012 Global Excellence Awards. These prestigious global awards recognize security and IT vendors with advanced ground-breaking products and solutions that are helping set the bar higher for others in all areas of technologies.
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Spam Finds New Target
Facebook and Twitter Build Up Their Defenses as Hackers Attack Social Networks. One of their foot soldiers is Tao Stein, a Facebook engineer. At 4 a.m. one May morning, Mr. Stein was jolted out of bed by a spam alert on his cellphone.
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Logging In With a Touch or a Phrase (Anything but a Password)
After years of predicting its demise, security researchers are renewing their efforts to supplement and perhaps one day obliterate the old-fashioned password.
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What Was Hot at RSA Conference
It goes without saying that security plays a great role in almost every product segment. This industry is growing even though many technologies come and go. Two noteworthy trends are mobile and ID management. Mobile, along with cloud computing, is one of the few areas where IT shines. Security of mobile computing means different things to different people. A company like TeleSign uses a mobile phone to verify identity for network access
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TeleSign Ranked 15th Fastest Growing Company in North America on Deloitte’s 2011 Technology Fast 500
Los Angeles, Calif. – October 19, 2011 TeleSign, a market leader in Internet and Cloud fraud prevention and web-based user identification, access, and authentication services, today announced it ranked 15th on the Deloitte 2011 Technology Fast 500™ ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and clean technology companies in North America. In earning this cross industry distinction, TeleSign grew 15,558 percent during this period, with strong adoption in U.S. and international markets.
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TeleSign Introduces Enhanced PhoneID 2.0 Product
Los Angeles – October 19, 2011 – TeleSign, a market leader in Internet fraud prevention and web-based user identification, access, and authentication services, today announced the next generation of its PhoneID solution, which helps online businesses automate fraud prevention using phone data. PhoneID 2.0 provides increased ability to detect suspicious telephone numbers, which enables web-based companies to better identify and stop Internet fraud and spam, in a way that is easy to implement, automated, and cost effective.
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Los Angeles Fast 500 Winners Announced
October 19, 2011 The Los Angeles winners of the Deloitte Fast 500 ranking of fastest growing companies was announced last night at an event at Santa Monica's Shutters on the Beach, with 26 companies recognized in the overall 2011 Technology Fast 500, and three "Technology Rising Stars" recognized in the Los Angeles area.
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TeleSign Offers Security Solutions To Prevent Compromise of Online Accounts
Los Angeles – Sept. 27, 2011 – TeleSign, the market leader in phone-based authentication and verification services, today announced the release of a white paper that details the widespread dangers of compromised online accounts, ranging in severity from individual account access to mass attacks exposing millions of users.
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Webinar: CAPTCHA is Dead, What’s Next?
Los Angeles - September 26, 2011 TeleSign, a market leader in phone-based authentication and verification services, today announced that Stacy Stubblefield, Vice President of Product Strategy and Charles McColgan, Chief Technology Officer will be hosting an online webinar.
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TeleSign Executive to Speak at Merchant Risk Council Fall Platinum Meeting
Los Angeles - September 13, 2011 - TeleSign, a market leader in phone-based authentication and verification services, today announced that Stacy Stubblefield, Vice President of Product Strategy, will speak at the Merchant Risk Council (MRC) Fall Platinum Meeting, scheduled for September 19-21, 2011, in Chicago.
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ThreatMetrix and TeleSign Help Name.com Eliminate More Than $1.5 Million in Annual Online Fraud
Los Angeles, and Los Altos, Calif. – August 30, 2011 – ThreatMetrix™, the fastest growing provider of fraud prevention solutions that do not require personally identifiable information (PII), and TeleSign, a market leader in phone-based authentication and verification services, announced today that they have joined to deliver advanced online fraud prevention solutions for Name.com. TeleSign worked with Name.com to implement TeleSign Telephone Verification after Name.com also employed the ThreatMetrix™ Cloud-Based Fraud Prevention Platform. Together, the solutions have since eliminated more than $1.5 million in fraud losses annually for Name.com.
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TeleSign Unveils Internet Security Landscape Report
July 29, 2011 The white paper reveals the depth of threats to online security and further illustrates how Telephone Verification and PhoneID technology can prevent many types of online fraud, greatly reducing spam and scams.
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TeleSign Releases Internet Security Landscape Report
Los Angeles – July 27, 2011 – TeleSign, the market leader in phone-based authentication and verification services, today announced the release of a white paper revealing the breadth and depth of threats to online security. The white paper, authored by TeleSign CTO Charles McColgan, illustrates how Telephone Verification and PhoneID technology can prevent many types of online fraud, greatly reducing spam and scams.
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TeleSign Awarded U.S. Patent for Phone ID Technology
Los Angeles – June 21, 2011 - TeleSign, a market leader in phone-based authentication and verification services, today announced it has been awarded a U.S. Patent for its PhoneID verification technology. The patented technology analyzes and returns information about phone numbers, including phone type, geographic location, and whether the phone number is valid or invalid. In addition to other use cases, this data can then be integrated as an online company's user-screening process.
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Stacy Stubblefield to Speak at Mobile Computing Summit
Los Angeles - June 22, 2011 - TeleSign, a market leader in phone-based authentication and verification services, today announced that Stacy Stubblefield, Vice President of Product Strategy, will speak at the first annual Mobile Computing Summit scheduled for June 28-30, 2011 in Burlingame, California.
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TeleSign Enables New SMS Passcode Global Solution with Voice Authentication Service
Los Angeles and Copenhagen – April 28, 2011 - TeleSign, the market leader in phone-based authentication and verification services, today announced it has been selected by SMS PASSCODE as a provider of global, phone-based verification services for its newly-launched SMS PASSCODE Version 5. Under the partnership, TeleSign will augment SMS PASSCODE's existing on premise SMS delivery platform with TeleSign's global voice and SMS authentication service for one-time-password delivery.
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TeleSign Appoints Forrest Hobbs as Vice President of Sales and Support
Los Angeles, CA - April 18, 2011 - TeleSign, a global leader in Internet Security announced that Forrest Hobbs will lead as Vice President of Sales and Support. Hobbs brings fifteen years of Sales, Marketing and Business Development experience to TeleSign, the last ten focused on building direct and partner sales organizations for cloud security and productivity software businesses.
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TeleSign Commits Further Investment into Quality Practice; Appoints Terry Somers as Vice President of Network Operations
Los Angeles, CA - March 28, 2011 - TeleSign, a global leader in Internet Security announced that Terry Somers will act as the Vice President of Network Operations. With more than three decades of experience managing worldwide networks for industry-leading technology enterprises, Somers is no stranger to the demands of supporting mission-critical enterprise application services. Somers will oversee all network operations and will be responsible for providing clients with a reliable and consistent experience keeping the systems running smoothly and efficiently at all hours.
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TeleSign Continues International Expansion with Opening of European Headquarters
Los Angeles and London - March 17, 2011 - TeleSign, the market leader in phone-based authentication and verification services, today announced the opening of a new European headquarters in London and the appointment of Craig Whitney as vice president, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa.) This expansion and new leadership outside the U.S. will enable TeleSign to more efficiently service its international clients and will support the company’s rapidly growing global operations. TeleSign currently provides verification services for the international divisions of some of the web’s largest and most prominent companies, verifying users in more than 200 countries and 50 languages.
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TeleSign Announces Internet Security Pioneer Charles McColgan as CTO
Los Angeles, CA - March 14, 2011 - TeleSign, a global leader in Internet Security announced that Charles McColgan will serve as the company’s Chief Technology Officer. Mr. McColgan will lead TeleSign’s technical development, operations, and long-term vision of the company. He brings twenty years of industry experience which includes his creation and operation of SAAS solutions used by thousands of enterprises in the security and messaging space.
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TeleSign Named 2011 Winner of Info Security Products Guide Excellence Award
Marina del Rey, CA – February 24, 2011 – TeleSign, the market leader in phone-based authentication and verification services, today announced that Info Security Products Guide has named TeleSign's latest phone verification release winner of the 2011 Global Excellence Awards in Authentication. More than 50 judges representing a broad spectrum of industry voices from around the world determined the 2011 Global Excellence Awards Winners and Finalists. Winners were announced during the Info Security Products Guide Global Excellence Awards dinner event on February 16, 2011 in San Francisco.
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TeleSign Appoints Industry Veteran, Steve Jillings as CEO
Los Angeles, CA - October 27, 2010 - TeleSign, a global leader in Internet Security announced that Steve Jillings has been appointed as CEO to lead TeleSign in its next stage of growth. A successful executive with an advantageous track record of growing start-ups and growth stage companies to highly profitable ventures, Mr. Jillings joins TeleSign to lead corporate strategy. Mr. Jillings brings a wealth of business- building experience, specifically in the areas of corporate finance, sales, marketing and technology.
