Protect Customer Identities and Reduce Security Risk
Financial institutions face a growing range of fraud and cybersecurity threats, from account takeover and identity fraud to scams and data breaches. Javelin helps organizations identify emerging risks, evaluate evolving attack methods, and develop strategies to protect customer accounts, identities, and data. Our research also provides guidance on fraud prevention, cybersecurity best practices, customer education, and building trust in an increasingly complex threat landscape.
Recent Fraud Management and Cybersecurity Research
Reports
2027 Cybersecurity Trends
Intelligence will be key to cybersecurity trends in 2027. Attackers exploit trusted connections and exposed data across digital ecosystems, while defenders must anticipate how cyber risks compound. Supply-chain compromises can create indirect pa...
2027 Fraud Management Trends
This report focuses on three major trends in 2027 with far-reaching ramifications: shifting scam liability, emerging liability frameworks for agentic commerce, and the governance of agentic fraud tools. These trends highlight the importance of i...
Elder Fraud: New Bills, Persistent Gaps
Much of the attention surrounding elder fraud concentrates on scams, but identity fraud and trusted-person financial exploitation also pose serious risks to older adults. These different forms of fraud can overlap, making prevention, detection, ...
Rethinking Device Trust: A Global Perspective
This Javelin Strategy & Research report, sponsored by BioCatch, explores why device intelligence has become a critical component of a modern fraud tech stack for financial institutions. It examines the ever-growing risks present throughout the c...
Sharing is Caring: The Fraud ‘Consortium’ Effect
Financial institutions are slowly realizing that sharing fraud data is a necessary response to the rise of well-organized fraudsters who target multiple financial institutions simultaneously. Fraud vendors are increasingly differentiating themse...
Modern Core, Smarter Decisions: Intelligence for Fraud Prevention and Digital Trust
This report, sponsored by Fiserv, examines the dynamic landscape of fraud and scams, the roadblocks to consumer trust, and the key elements of a core platform that proactively combats fraud, eases operational strain, and builds and maintains lon...
2026 Business-to-Business Identity Protection Services Vendor Scorecard: Platform Integration and Scam-Loss Coverage Set the New Bar for B2B Identity Protection
Business-to-business identity protection is moving beyond conventional monitoring toward embedded, household-wide financial safety and cybersecurity. Javelin’s inaugural B2B identity theft protection services (IDPS) scorecard finds that flexible...
The Front Door to Fraud: Rethinking Digital Onboarding Risk
This report, sponsored by TransUnion, examines the risks present during digital onboarding and explores the impacts of new-account fraud on consumers and organizations alike. It emphasizes the importance of continuous identity assurance througho...
Card Account Updaters and Digital Wallets: The Hidden Cyber Advantage for Crime
Infostealers are changing the rules of payments card risk. Replacing a compromised card may be an immediate fix, but it does not cut off access to compromised merchant accounts and digital wallets. As cybercriminals increasingly exploit previous...
Good Bot, Bad Bot: How Agentic AI Changes Fraud Detection
As consumers begin using AI agents, banks and merchants can no longer treat automated activity as suspicious by default. Fraud teams will need to distinguish legitimate agents from malicious bots while also determining whether an agent is acting...