It is realy great idea and good effort , I was realy looking such application , hopefully Community edition will be supported and promoted by Humbug team
Nasir Iqbal ICT Innovations http://www.ictinnovations.com/ On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Boaz Bechar <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Gerald, All, > > Many thanks for the reactions, and interest. > > When we refer to the system being cloud-based we mean that the analytical > engine and processing is handled on our servers rather than on the > customers, the same way other hosted services are typically provided (web > analytics, hosted pbxs, etc). We feel there are many advantages to this, > especially in our case where we aim to provide fraud detection on the PBX > level. > > I just want to clarify that the Humbug cloud service itself does not > connect to your AMI directly, rather we provide a downloadable agent (the > "humbug-collector") which resides on the customers PBX, and connects to the > manager locally (with a password unknown to Humbug) in read-only mode. The > Humbug-collector is provided as open source, and essentially sends events > that you want handled, fully encrypted to Humbug via API. Its possible to > send events in other formats (i.e from the dialplan or AGI, etc) but we feel > this is the best way to implement for most Asterisk users. > > We understand well that carriers employ analytics and fraud detection on > their traffic, and perhaps even have entire revenue-assurance teams to > handle cases. On the other side of the scale we see millions of PBXs > deployed, of all breeds and vendors, which essentially have no real access > to this technology both from an implementation and ROI standpoint - leaving > the unsuspecting user having to explain the $100,000 in international phone > calls ( > http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9194041/Security_Manager_s_Journal_Slammed_with_a_100_000_phone_bill > ). > > With an estimated $80 billion lost annually to telecom fraud, and nearly > 20% classified as "PBX/voicemail fraud", (CFCA 2009 global fraud loss > survey) we feel the solution is not a matter of perfecting algorithms in > existing systems, but rather of implementation, in which the analysis is on > done carrier-independent, by a dedicated service in the cloud. And while we > havent formally released the alerting system as part of the analytics suite > yet, we feel that the traffic visibility which analytics provides is an > important first line of defense. > > I hope I clarified our intentions with the cloud service. > > Kind Regards, > Boaz > > > Gerald Bove wrote: > >> Can I have a little more information on how this works in the cloud? I was >> just checking out the site, and was very interested. I assumed it was just >> an app I ran either on the asterisk server, or on a separate server, but if >> this is "cloud" based, that kind of kills it. >> >> Sending this type of information to a third party (a non-verified third >> part at that) is a big privacy concern. At the very least opening AMI or >> whatever this uses to pull the stats seems scary enough. >> I think your find that no real carrier will take this product seriously if >> that's how it works. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Chris Bagnall >> Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 7:11 AM >> To: 'Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion' >> Subject: [BULK] Re: [asterisk-biz] Humbug Analytics - Falcon Release >> Importance: Low >> >> Some months ago we posted an open invitation to our beta of Humbug >>> Analytics, and I thought I would share some of our progress since, as >>> this may >>> be relevant to many of you. >>> >> >> I'm sure I can't be the only one who's thinking "this looks very nice, why >> can't they release it as an app?" What's the obsession with "cloud" >> everything these days? >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Chris >> > > > > > -- > _____________________________________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-biz mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz >
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