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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
New Account Fraud: A Threat Down Every Avenue
- Complimentary Webinar, Sponsored Webinar
- Date: July, 2022
- Author(s): Suzanne Sando
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
Join us for a live conversation with Suzanne Sando, Senior Analyst, Fraud and Cybersecurity at Javelin Strategy & Research, where we will discuss the problems that financial institutions are facing in the digital account opening process, from ap...
Rising Threats: How Identity Fraud Affects the Digital Channel
- Whitepaper
- Date: July 13, 2022
- Author(s): John Buzzard
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
This report, sponsored by FIS, will examine how identity fraud affects digital channels. The compilation of issues ranges from the ever-changing regulatory environment to how financial institutions deal with the increasingly sophisticated financ...
Customer Experience: Is There Room for Empathy?
- Whitepaper
- Date: July 7, 2022
- Author(s): Suzanne Sando
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
This report, sponsored by Iris® Powered by Generali, explores the impacts of identity fraud on consumers and how significant the client experience is in customer retention and new growth. This report is derived from the 2022 Identity Fraud Study...
Data Loss Prevention Against Ransomware
- Javelin Report
- Date: June 29, 2022
- Author(s): Tracy (Kitten) Goldberg
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
This report explores the challenges financial services providers face, not only when it comes to being attacked themselves, but in the counsel and education they offer to business customers and consumers about how to defend themselves against fa...
DDoS Attacks Pose New Risk for Banks: Tiny Botnet Wages Largest HTTPS Attack on Record
- Impact Note
- Date: June 29, 2022
- Author(s): Tracy (Kitten) Goldberg
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
The news earlier this month that the largest HTTPS distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on record was intercepted and mitigated should get the attention of financial institutions. The sheer size and power of the attack, waged by a tiny bo...
New-Account Fraud: A Threat Down Every Avenue
- Whitepaper
- Date: June 9, 2022
- Author(s): Suzanne Sando
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
This report, sponsored by BioCatch, explores the real-life risks and impacts of new-account fraud on financial institutions and consumers. This report is derived from the 2022 Identity Fraud Study: The Virtual Battleground, published by Javelin ...
The Power of One: Reducing the Impact of Identity Fraud
- Whitepaper
- Date: June 9, 2022
- Author(s): John Buzzard
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
This report, sponsored by Neustar, a TransUnion company, explores identity fraud and the necessary steps business enterprises must take into consideration as a means of streamlining the authentication process while also improving the overall cli...
Shields Up: How Financial Institutions Should Brace for Targeted Cyberattacks
- Impact Note
- Date: May 26, 2022
- Author(s): Tracy (Kitten) Goldberg
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
The U.S. government is warning U.S. firms to prepare for possible Russian cyberattacks due to the West's economic sanctions on Russia and support of Ukraine. This note explores the specifics of the U.S. government's "Shields Up" warnings, and re...
Robo Nation: The Threat of Communication-Based Fraud
- Javelin Report
- Date: April 12, 2022
- Author(s): Suzanne Sando
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
Consumers are unable to escape the increasing surge of robocalls, scam texts and phishing emails that were heightened by the pandemic and continue on an upward trend. But communication-based fraud is about more than just causing aggravation for ...
Drain Data Lakes to Fill Rivers and Build Harbors with Sensitive Data
- Javelin Report
- Date: April 8, 2022
- Author(s): Tracy (Kitten) Goldberg, Alexander Franks
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
Financial services companies are increasingly faced with data overload, and the problem is only getting worse, as increasing amounts of sensitive consumer and corporate data reside on multiple servers and applications across enterprises. Unfortu...