What can a company do after learning that their intellectual property is being stolen from their network? Here’s the story of how NeuSentry identified a VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) gateway as an egress point—which eluded all other existing security best practices and procedures—and stopped the loss of proprietary data for one major corporation. Situation: [...]
Neustar NeuSentry: Protecting Proprietary Data at a Fortune 100 company

Is the Phone Number on its Way Out?
Although it’s easy to think that we don’t need them anymore, the short answer is no: even under the most aggressive plan to upgrade phone number management, neither the telephone number nor the century-old public switched telephone network (PSTN) that supports it are becoming obsolete. Some hand-wringing about that is natural, given the rapid emergence [...]

Neustar Wins Awards; Number Portability and VOIP; IPv6 Day
Here’s our roundup of the headlines that got our attention this week–from both inside Neustar and out. Neustar Wins Awards! – Congratulations to CFO Paul Lalljie for winning the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s Public Company CFO of the Year. We are also proud to be included as one of 24 businesses singled out as market [...]

Moving Telephone Numbers Into the Internet Age
In this final posting of our series on the future of telephone numbers, Neustar’s Tom McGarry explains why rapid changes in Internet and communications require evolving telephone numbers. Now that we’re 20 years past TN 2.0, well into the 21st century, and onto the 3rd generation of the web; it is about time we move [...]

The Future of Telephone Numbers: Numbers 3.0
In Part 1 of our series on the future of telephone numbers, Neustar’s Tom McGarry briefly explains the history of telephone numbering and why we need to think about the future. Telephone numbers are ubiquitous; they are the single most universal identifier used for communications. This is largely due to their many positive characteristics; they [...]

Five Reasons the NPAC is Invaluable to Communications Service Providers
We often get asked: just what is the NPAC, and why does it matter so much? The Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC) is the most authoritative and comprehensive source for information related to local telephone numbers in the United States. What does that mean? As carriers compete to acquire customers and launch new services, the [...]
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Series
- Physical Office Security in a Digital Security World May 16, 2013
- IP Geolocation: Four Reasons It Beats the Alternatives May 16, 2013
- Internet and Digital Literacy Hold Keys to Future Success for Students May 9, 2013
- What do you mean my password isn’t strong enough? May 9, 2013
- The Evolution of DNS – Starting from the Beginning May 2, 2013
- Why Neustar is Acquiring TARGUSinfo October 11, 2011
- Five Reasons the NPAC is Invaluable to Communications Service Providers September 12, 2011
- Neustar Bloggers Share Their Desert Island Movies February 24, 2012
- Candy QR Code: Tasty Tasty Halloween Marketing October 14, 2011
- Two Generations of Telephone Numbers November 21, 2011







