IBM FlashSystem
Chosen to Protect
Against Fraud
Leading Egyptian mobile provider speed up real-time
analytics to identify fraudulent activity
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BM recently announced that Etisalat Misr, a subsidiary
of Emirati Etisalat Group, and one of the leading mobile
providers in Egypt, has chosen an IBM FlashSystem, a
state-of- the-art storage solution, to protect
against fraud.
This will help enable Etisalat Misr to significantly speed up
real-time analytics to identify fraudulent activity in areas
such as calls and unauthorised internet use.
Etisalat Misr provides a full range of voice and data services
to more than 22 million subscribers in Egypt which includes
telecom services to the largest Egyptian enterprises. With
increasing competition, the company faced challenges in
delivering enhanced performance, availability, analytics and
security to its growing customer base.
Etisalat’s fraud management system depends on data
received from network switches to detect fraud. However
it often took as long as three days to capture and analyse
fraud data.
To resolve delays in its fraud management system, Etisalat
Misr decided to use IBM FlashSystem V840. With the new
storage technology in place, Etisalat Misr is expected to
improve the efficiency of its fraud management application,
reducing the time spent on processing call records by a factor of 15 times and improving the speed of fraud detection
by a factor of 37 times.
“We are growing very fast and as a result, we are continuously looking for innovative IT solutions that can help
deliver seamless security and end-to-end management of
our clients’ devices, content and transactions,” said Khalid
AlKaf, Director of Operations & Infrastructure at Etisalat
Misr. “Modernising our storage is key to compete in an interconnected world and supports our growth.”
Ahmed Bourham, Systems Group Manager, IBM Egypt,
added, “In today’s environment, risk and fraud management
must be pervasive throughout an organisation’s culture
and operating model. IBM’s flash and software defined
storage technologies can help organisations bring together
fragmented data from segregated systems and a variety of
sources to deliver enhanced insights to mitigate risk and
better manage fraud.”
With IBM FlashSystem V840, Etisalat Misr is expected to
enhance analytics performance while reducing storage footprint and lowering energy costs by speeding up real-time
analytics of its Fraud Management System and making it
capture and analyse fraud data virtually instantaneously
instead of taking three days. This has already helped the
company improve its operations by 300 percent.
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contact Joe at First Distribution on (011) 540 2640 or
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