XConnect Wins Platinum and Gold at the Juniper Research Future Digital Awards for Telco Innovation

XConnect has been recognised with Platinum and Gold awards at the Juniper Research Future Digital Awards for Telco Innovation, highlighting the company’s leadership across two critical areas of trusted communications: mobile identity and voice fraud mitigation.

Juniper Research is widely regarded as one of the most authoritative analyst firms covering telecommunications, fraud prevention and digital security. Its Future Digital Awards celebrate technologies that are not just responding to today’s challenges, but actively shaping the future of the digital ecosystem. Platinum and Gold awards are reserved for solutions that demonstrate exceptional innovation, impact and technical excellence.

Recognition across two categories reflects a clear and consistent strategy from XConnect: addressing fraud and identity challenges at the network level, where risk can be detected earlier and trust can be established more effectively.

Platinum Winner: Best Mobile Identity Solution

SAFr Auth

SAFr Auth has been named Platinum Winner for Best Mobile Identity Solution, receiving Juniper Research’s highest level of recognition.

SAFr Auth is a human-first, network-powered authentication solution that eliminates the weaknesses of passwords and one-time passcodes. It verifies the right person, on the right SIM, using the right device, in real time, using live mobile network intelligence.

Authentication completes in under 100 milliseconds, delivering stronger security with a dramatically improved user experience for banks, financial services organisations and enterprises.

• No passwords

• No one-time passcodes

• Nothing to intercept or socially engineer

What sets SAFr Auth apart is its next-level innovation. By combining network-level verification with patent-pending phishing mitigation signals, it detects man-in-the-middle and phishing attacks before fraud occurs. This is Number Verify 1.5 — authentication built for how modern attacks actually work.

Gold Winner: Most Innovative Voice Fraud Mitigation Solution

IRSFCheck™

XConnect’s IRSFCheck™, part of the RiskALERT™ portfolio, has been named Gold Winner for Most Innovative Voice Fraud Mitigation Solution, recognising its industry-leading approach to preventing International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF).

IRSF remains one of the most damaging and persistent threats in global voice communications, with losses capable of escalating into tens of thousands of dollars within hours. IRSFCheck was built to stop fraud before traffic is routed, rather than relying on after-the-fact detection.

By combining XConnect’s award-winning Global Number Range data with the GSMA’s IRSF Prevention dataset, IRSFCheck enables operators, CPaaS providers and enterprises to proactively identify high-risk numbers and block fraudulent traffic early.

IRSFCheck delivers:

• Over 19 million high-risk numbers

• Coverage across 239 countries and territories

• Databases updated more than 250 times per day

• Over 90% detection on confirmed fraud cases

• Protection against all major IRSF methods, including Wangiri and roaming fraud

Gold recognition reflects IRSFCheck’s proven effectiveness at scale and its role in protecting the global voice ecosystem against one of its most persistent fraud threats.

Thank You

We would like to thank Juniper Research for this recognition, and our customers and partners who continue to push us to build what the industry truly needs. Winning awards for both IRSFCheck and SAFr Auth demonstrates a simple truth: solving fraud and identity properly means addressing problems at the network level.

We'd also like to extend our congratulations to all nominees and winners across every award category.

One Platinum. One Gold. Two award-winning solutions — and a clear direction for the future of trusted communications.

To learn more about SAFr Auth, IRSFCheck™, and how XConnect is strengthening trust across global networks, visit www.xconnect.net or contact the team today.