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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
Protecting Digital Innovation: Emerging Fraud and Attack Vectors
- Whitepaper
- Date: January 13, 2020
- Author(s): Krista Tedder
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
This original report, sponsored by Kount, provides insights and education to retailers and merchants to demonstrate how digital transformation also brings about more complex fraud scenarios. While improving the user experience, it is cr...
Securing the Contact Center
- Javelin Report
- Date: December 16, 2019
- Author(s): Krista Tedder
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
Walk through a contact center and you will hear violations of security and privacy in the name of servicing the consumer. As we collected information on location at multiple contact centers, it was readily apparent that contact center security n...
2020 Cybersecurity Trends
- Javelin Report
- Date: December 3, 2019
- Author(s): Sean Sposito
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Cybersecurity
Financial institutions (FIs) are driving towards a future where there’s little difference between online and offline banking. In that world where the edge of a firm’s business is better defined by an omni-channel experience than just its brick-a...
2020 Fraud Management Trends
- Javelin Report
- Date: December 3, 2019
- Author(s): Kyle Marchini
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
Fraud is continually evolving, and technology can mitigate the risk. But technology can also be the risk. The way consumers interact with financial institutions, how payments move, and the manipulation of artificial intelligence are areas in 202...
EMVCo Secure Remote Commerce (SRC)
- Javelin Report
- Date: December 2, 2019
- Author(s): Kyle Marchini, Krista Tedder
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
U.S. digital-only challenger banks have long touted low fees as their primary benefit. No monthly account charges and free ATM transactions help position the mobile apps as consumer-friendly alternatives to giant banks. Several of these neobanks...
Behavioral Biometrics: Innovative Fraud Deterrent or Threat to Consumer Privacy?
- Javelin Report
- Date: November 6, 2019
- Author(s): Sean Sposito
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
Behavioral biometrics is quickly emerging as a useful means of lowering fraud losses. The technology pulls data from the gyroscopes of smartphones, monitoring and measuring the rates of keystrokes, among other techniques, to accurately ensure th...
Solving the Evolving Fraud Problem Through Fusion
- Whitepaper
- Date: September 24, 2019
- Author(s): Kyle Marchini, Sean Sposito
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
This original report, sponsored by Booz Allen Hamilton, outlines the specific motivations, frameworks, and technologies used by collaborative fraud and security teams inside financial institutions, merchants, and payment service providers.
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The New Criminal Toolbox: Tools and Tactics for Modern Crimeware
- Javelin Report
- Date: August 22, 2019
- Author(s): Kyle Marchini
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
The growth of fraud over the past decade has fueled the rise of a sophisticated criminal economy. Individuals getting started in fraud, or existing teams changing their focus, rarely need to build their own tools, instead turning to marketplaces...
The Evolution of New Account Fraud
- Whitepaper
- Date: July 25, 2019
- Author(s): Kyle Marchini
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
This original report, sponsored by GIACT®, examines the challenges posed by the evolving threat of fraudulent account opening. As fraudsters have broadened their targets, organizations outside traditional financial services have had to confront ...
Data Recovery: Paying Extortionists to Protect Customers Is Not Illegal, But It May Be Risky
- Javelin Report
- Date: June 24, 2019
- Author(s): Sean Sposito
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
The popular conversation around ransomware has shifted from detection to remediation. Hospitals, municipalities, and other victims frequently end up paying their extortionists through third parties promising data recovery services.