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Javelin explores and analyzes how financial institutions can get ahead of criminals using technology, training and education. Our insights guide financial institutions to devise effective strategies to safeguard their data, systems and customers through two specialized practices – Fraud Management and Cybersecurity.
Mitigate Security Threats and Keep Accounts and Identities Safe
Criminals’ tactics are always changing. So is the technology that can help head them off. Javelin’s analysis can help keep financial institutions—and thus their customers—a step ahead. Further, Javelin can help you position your customers as partners in protecting their own information from would-be thieves.
Recent Fraud and Security Research
Reports
Fraud Victimization and Advocacy: Changing the Narrative
- Whitepaper
- Date: December 10, 2024
- Author(s): Jennifer Pitt
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
This report, sponsored by AARP, explores the immediate and long-term risks of scams and identity fraud for consumers while establishing a case for providing more compassionate fraud resolution and eliminating the victim stigma.
2024 Child & Family Cybersecurity Study, Social Media and Children: A Dangerous Game of Trust and Deceit
- Whitepaper
- Date: December 5, 2024
- Author(s): Tracy (Kitten) Goldberg
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
Children’s prevalence on social media puts them at increasing risk of being targeted not only for identity theft but also for money mule recruitment, extortion, and cyberbullying, all of which can have devastating financial and psychological eff...
Social Media and Children: A Dangerous Game of Trust and Deceit
- Complimentary Webinar, On Demand Webinar
- Date: November 26, 2024
- Author(s): Tracy (Kitten) Goldberg
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
Join Javelin Strategy & Research’s Tracy Kitten and the Identity Theft Resource Center’s Eva Velasquez for an essential webinar designed for families and financial institutions about the rising threat of child identity theft and its link to soci...
Deepfake Fraud Alert: How FinCEN’s Guidance Affects Banks
- Impact Note
- Date: November 18, 2024
- Author(s): Jennifer Pitt
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
Even though deepfake-related fraud suspicious activity reports are on the rise, many financial institutions do not have a deepfake detection solution. FinCEN’s recent alert notes that banks have seen an increased use of deepfakes, specifically r...
2025 Cybersecurity Trends
- Javelin Report
- Date: November 7, 2024
- Author(s): Tracy (Kitten) Goldberg, Suzanne Sando, Kevin Libby, Jennifer Pitt
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
Expanding security automation by relying more heavily on security orchestration, artificial intelligence, and data analytics, as well as a more inclusive and expansive definition of threat intelligence signals, will dictate the success cyber tea...
2025 Fraud Management Trends
- Javelin Report
- Date: November 7, 2024
- Author(s): Tracy (Kitten) Goldberg, Suzanne Sando, Kevin Libby, Jennifer Pitt
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
Innovation is the name of the game in 2025. Though the financial services industry is always working to develop the latest and greatest technology for fraud detection and prevention, there are more than a few opportunities on which financial ins...
Identity Verification Demystified: Share More, Secure More
- Javelin Report
- Date: October 31, 2024
- Author(s): Kevin Libby
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
Going too far to protect identity has put the financial services industry at increased risk. Reluctance to share critical signals across disparate platforms and sectors has pigeon-holed financial institutions into limited views of the consumers ...
Threat Intel Odyssey: Mapping the Convergence of Social Cyber Risks
- Impact Note
- Date: October 31, 2024
- Author(s): Tracy (Kitten) Goldberg
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
Successful sharing of threat intelligence must move beyond the borders of traditional financial services and governments to include social media, a breeding ground for cybercrime and nation-state threats. This will be tricky for FIs, which must ...
Cyber Trust in Banking
- Advisory Webinar: Client Login Required
- Date: November, 2024
- Author(s): Tracy (Kitten) Goldberg, Suzanne Sando
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
Join us for a 30-minute webinar featuring Javelin experts Tracy Kitten and Suzanne Sando as we explore the essential elements of cyber trust from the consumer's perspective.
2024 Cyber Trust in Banking Scorecard
- Javelin Report
- Date: September 27, 2024
- Author(s): Suzanne Sando, Kevin Libby
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Cybersecurity
In this scorecard, Javelin evaluates leading financial institutions’ level of cyber trust based on key components: privacy, cybersecurity, education and resolution support. Shifting customer attitudes (and customers’ greater awareness of fraud a...