Askozia Bundles Humbug Fraud Prevention, Detection & Analytics into Asterisk Offering

Askozia, which provides a highly intuitive telephone system for businesses,  will bundle the Humbug fraud detection, prevention and analytics tools into their Asterisk-based PBX (News - Alert) solution. Officials with Askozia claimed that the PBX is easy to use, supports VoIP, ISDN, analog and GSM, is multilingual and costs less than a single VoIP phone and is configured via a highly intuitive Web GUI.

 Askozia PBX aims to make the power of Asterisk (News - Alert) available to the average user in a slimmed down, embedded format. Askozia provides both software and appliance-based PBX's.“Hacking of telephone systems is a very real problem that costs small businesses billions annually and it was critical for us to protect our customers,” said Benjamin-Nicola Lüken, head of operations for Askozia, in a statement.

“Askozia is one of the only PBX manufacturers to provide this capability and you’ll likely see others follow our lead in the future,” said Lüken.

Officials with Humbug Telecom Labs said that Humbug Analytics and Fraud Prevention is natively available on the Askozia PBX as of version 2.1 which was released this month. This release allows Askozia users to receive in-depth traffic reports, secure their PBX, and gain traffic alerting capabilities. Askozia is business-grade PBX is used by small and medium sized organizations which normally do not have access to fraud prevention technology.

Thanks to Humbug Labs and Askozia, these users will be able to easily benefit from this protection.Askozia officials pointed out that the company will be providing and promoting Humbug to its users as a security tool and as an advanced reporting interface. Humbug will be promoting Askozia as a Humbug-ready solution for organizations that seek an advanced and secure PBX system.“Open source phone systems are particularly susceptible to voicemail hacking, hijacking and other forms of telecom fraud,” said Yaniv Rofé, CEO of Humbug Telecom Labs.

Rofé said that small businesses tend to think that they are immune to such behavior, but telecom hacking has now become a common occurrence, particularly with smaller businesses that that hackers and phreakers can easily target.

Humbug Telecom Labs makes it affordable for any sized business to have carrier-class fraud prevention and detection, while providing powerful BI (business intelligence) that puts the users in command of their telecom activity.

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Edited by Stefanie Mosca