Designing Security as a User Experience
The ongoing battle between attackers and defenders have left valid users caught in the middle. Protecting user accounts with aggressive security policies leads to false positives and needlessly locks valid users out of their account, while lenient security policies lead to...
Users - One of the Weakest Links in Your Cybersecurity Strategy
They say 'it's all about who you know' - for cybersecurity, that's partially true. If a cyberattacker knows your users, there's a good chance they can get into your network. Why? Because they can take what they know - usually an email address or...
A key disconnect exists between awareness of financial services fraud schemes and mitigation, according to the latest "Faces of Fraud" survey sponsored by Appgate. Mike Lopez, vice president at the firm, describes some key findings.
Users - One of the Weakest Links in Your Cybersecurity Strategy
They say 'it's all about who you know' - for cybersecurity, that's partially true. If a cyberattacker knows your users, there's a good chance they can get into your network. Why? Because they can take what they know - usually an email address or...
Designing Security as a User Experience
The ongoing battle between attackers and defenders have left valid users caught in the middle. Protecting user accounts with aggressive security policies leads to false positives and needlessly locks valid users out of their account, while lenient security policies lead to...
Account Takeover is one of the biggest threats that banks are facing today. With 3.8 billion data records compromised worldwide in 2018, it is evident that despite implementation of cybersecurity measures, digital channels remain vulnerable. Adversaries have a variety of weapons at their disposal, which makes...
Securing user accounts from both bots and human attackers has become one of the most fundamental challenges of delivering modern applications and services. Attackers continuously develop ever more sophisticated techniques for taking over user accounts.
Aggressive security policies lead to false positives and...
Armed with billions of stolen records, fraudsters create synthetic identities to apply for credit cards, loans, and other types of credit causing unprecedented losses to financial institutions.
Download this brief to find out how to block application fraud from the start.
The mobile and online channels are the future; being able to authenticate returning customers and determine who new applicants really are will be essential to successfully expanding product offerings in high-risk digital channels.
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How payment innovation is impacting fraud...
Application fraud continues to be a significant problem for FIs across the U.S. As identity crimes continue to grow, it is increasingly difficult for FIs to determine who they are dealing with in all delivery channels.
Download this whitepaper to learn the effects of online application fraud in the banking industry...
123456, password, password1: These are a few of the top passwords used by Fortune 1000 employees whose passwords and personally identifiable information have been exposed in third-party breaches. While the dangers of easy-to-guess passwords are well-known, even employees at top companies are guilty of bad password...
To explore how credential stuffing attacks and brute force attacks differ, we need to understand what they are and how they operate. Here is a quick summary.
Adapting fraud systems from desktop to mobile is no simple task. Retailers may misinterpret legitimate shopping behavior as 'risky' due to the nature of cellular connections (e.g. a mobile carrier may shift your browsing to another location).
To deal with the increase in mobile usage, organizations must also make...
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