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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 92 11:03:12 -0400
From: bx981@CLEVELAND.FREENET.EDU(Larry Schilling)
Subject: File 7--XIOX's Anti-Phone-Fraud Products (Press Release)
XIOX'S FORT KNOX PRODUCTS COMBAT PHONE FRAUD
EXPERIENCED BY U.S. BUSINESSES
NEW YORK (OCT. 20) BUSINESS WIRE - Xiox' Fort Knox line of products is
aimed directly at reducing the estimated $4 billion of losses to
telephone service theft experienced by American businesses each year.
And they are the first products that combat telephone "hacking"
without requiring businesses to shut off vulnerable PBX features.
According to John Hough, noted phone fraud expert and author of "Toll
Fraud and Telabuse," business losses from telephone fraud, or
"hacking," are estimated at $4 billion per year.
Hough, chairman of Telecommunications Advisors Inc. (a Portland, Ore.
consulting firm), indicates that the average loss per incident to
users exceeds $90,000. Hough's firm estimates that more than 35,000
users will become victims of toll fraud in 1992.
Xiox estimates that every business has a one in 18 chance of being
hacked. The implications for security, however serious they may be in
terms of stolen service costs, become even more formidable when the
risk to a company's data is factored in. Many organizations' computer
systems are accessible through the telephone lines, and their computer
data is only as secure as their phone system.
In addition to creating enormous business losses, hackers have forced
businesses to shut off valuable and convenient features such as Direct
Inward System Access (DISA), Remote System Access, home agent
connections and remote diagnostics lines.
All these PBX features became access paths to hackers, who re-sell the
illegally-obtained services. Businesses experience further "hidden
losses" because they can't use the telephone for critical purposes.
"Fort Knox products are the most straightforward and economical
approach I've seen to enable users to keep their telephone systems
both 'open and secure,'" said Ed Freyermuth, telecom manager for
PacTel/Meridien Systems.
One of the Fort Knox products, Hacker Tracker, gives users the ability
to track and trap hackers, opening up the possibility of apprehending
them.
"Hackers have proliferated over the past ten years, possibly because
of their connection to the illegal drug trade," said Wanda
Gamble-Braggs, manager of Systems Integrity, Western Division of MCI.
"Unlike most crimes, they leave no evidence and are at little risk of
being caught. The approach to security taken by the Xiox system is
the first one that MCI has seen that gives the user some hope of
catching the criminal instead of becoming the next victim."
The Fort Knox family of anti-hacker products includes:
-- Hacker Preventer, an automated, intelligent system that senses
deviation from "normal" telephone usage and cuts off access to
hacking attempts. It incorporates proprietary hardware- and
software-based technology which attaches to the user's PBX. Price:
$10,000 to $28,000, depending on the size of the system needing
protection.
-- Hacker Tracker is a specialized recording and reporting system
incorporating proprietary software for tracking and trapping hackers.
Price: $2,195.
-- Hacker Deadbolt is a proprietary hardware and software system
providing protection for remote maintenance and testing ports of a
PBX, voice mail system and other telephone equipment on the customer's
premises. It can be upgraded to become Hacker Preventer. Price:
$1,295.
These products may be purchased separately or together. When
installed, the Xiox Fort Knox products become an intelligent agent for
monitoring all telecommunications traffic in and out of a system.
"At Solectron, we've analyzed the risk of being hacked," commented
Dave Tichener, telecom manager for Solectron Inc. "The Fort Knox
system represents a very reasonably-priced insurance policy, compared
to the potential loss."
All Fort Knox anti-hacker products are immediately available.
CONTACT: Xiox Corp.
Michael O'Connell, 415/375-8188, ext. 228
or
Oak Ridge Public Relations, Cupertino, Calif.
Ford Kanzler, 408/253-5042
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