Home / Our News & Events / News / 2018 Marks 20th Annual Equinox Fraud Management Event
(NASHVILLE, TN) August 27, 2018—As the leading fraud management solutions (FMS) supplier in the telecom industry, Equinox Information Systems is pleased to announce they will host their annual Protector User Group Meeting October 22 - 24 this year. Set at the Music City Center in Nashville, TN, this event is the cornerstone of Equinox’s mission to help telecom carriers protect and optimize their revenue. Not only is this educational conference on track to break attendance records again this year, but this fall’s gathering marks the 20th consecutive year Equinox has hosted the event.
Designed especially for Equinox’s fraud management customers, the event features carrier-led case studies and expert training that illustrate how to reduce fraud losses. With all content geared toward increasing fraud management awareness, providing direct access to industry-leading experts on this topic, and offering ample networking time, the conference attracts fraud analysts, loss/fraud prevention experts, NOC staff, engineers, switch personnel, technical support, and billing specialists from service providers across all sectors of telecom.
Equinox CEO Byron Middendorf serves as the event’s chairperson and opening speaker. AT&T Global Fraud Management Organization’s Adam Panagia is this year's featured guest speaker. Telecom fraud expert Christi Vanoye provides multiple training sessions as part of the conference lineup, which also includes panel discussions, a presentation on using and optimizing the latest FMS tools, a strategy session for the role of dashboards and trends in fighting fraud, and a deep dive with the Equinox Support team. As always, the agenda includes dedicated time for crowdsourcing future product features. CFCA members who attend the User Group Meeting continue to earn educational credits to qualify for CFCA’s Certified Communications Security Professional (CCSP) designation.
“The Protector User Group Meeting is an unsurpassed value and THE single best fraud management investment available! As always, Equinox takes care of admission costs, in-depth training, off-site networking event, and lots of good, Southern cooking for all members of the Protector community,” explained Equinox CEO and co-founder Byron Middendorf. “We already have a full roster of first-time participants as well as event veterans registered for this year’s event, with signups continuing to roll in. The entire Equinox team looks forward to collaborating and spending time with our customers.”
Registration for the Protector User Group Meeting is now open through October 8. Get complete event details, including registration link and host hotel details, at: https://www.equinoxis.com/pugm2018.php.
Protector, the most installed fraud management system (FMS) in the U.S., currently processes hundreds of millions of call records per day for customers around the globe. Immediate alerts about unwanted/ potentially dangerous activity speed response time and mitigate risk. Dynamic, customizable monitoring metrics allow Protector to detect all types of fraud—even the newest schemes—across all customer bases and call types. Protector has well earned its reputation for combatting telecommunications fraud by saving carriers hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud losses last year alone.
Since 1986, Nashville-based Equinox Information Systems has helped telecom customers around the world address profitability and network efficiency issues. Currently processing 1.7 billion customer records a day, Equinox has helped companies in all telecom sectors protect and optimize their revenue. Besides fraud management, Equinox also offers data mediation, usage analytics, revenue/ expense management, routing assurance, network analysis, and custom application development solutions. The company currently serves every sector of the telecom industry, including cable/MSOs, wireless, wireline, rural independent, CLEC, UCaaS/hosted VoIP, wholesale, and conference calling providers. To learn more, visit www.equinoxis.com, or follow the company on Twitter @EquinoxInfoSys and LinkedIn.
