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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
2019 Cybersecurity Trends
- Javelin Report
- Date: January 15, 2019
- Author(s): Sean Sposito, Test Test
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
Financial institutions are driving toward a future where there’s little difference between online and offline banking. In that world where the edge of a firm’s business is defined more by an omnichannel experience than just its brick-and-mortar ...
Overcoming False Positive Declines in E-Commerce
- Whitepaper
- Date: December 20, 2018
- Author(s): Test Test, Kyle Marchini
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
This report, sponsored by NuData Security, a Mastercard company, explores the relationship between card fraud and false positive declines in e-commerce transactions, along with the effects of those declines on consumers.
This report was adap...
2018 Identity Protection Service Provider Scorecard
- Javelin Report
- Date: December 12, 2018
- Author(s): Kyle Marchini
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
Javelin analyzes leading identity protection services providers' solutions, based on current fraud strategies and consumer expectations. For eleven years, Javelin has been benchmarking identity protection vendors and recognizing leading direct-t...
Phishing Banks: Tactics and Implications
- Javelin Report
- Date: November 15, 2018
- Author(s): Sean Sposito
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
This report examines the concerns and attitudes of financial institutions regarding this crime of virtual deceit. It also highlights and explores the solutions that FIs believe are most helpful in the fight against phishing.
2018 Mobile Biometrics Platform Scorecard
- Javelin Report
- Date: November 13, 2018
- Author(s): Kyle Marchini, Test Test
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
This report evaluates twelve of the leading mobile biometric authentication platform providers to assess the capabilities they offer in authenticating customers
Preserving Trust in Digital Financial Services: The Role of Identity and Authentication
- Whitepaper
- Date: November 7, 2018
- Author(s): Test Test, Kyle Marchini
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
This original report, sponsored by IBM Security examines the role of identity verification and authentication in building trust in financial services, both in helping accountholders trust their financial institutions and in enabling financial inst...
Overcoming the Top Ten Challenges to Omnichannel Fraud Management
- Whitepaper
- Date: November 6, 2018
- Author(s): Test Test, Kyle Marchini
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
This original report, sponsored by RSA, examines the challenges that financial institutions face in trying to manage fraud schemes that cross, and take advantage of, different banking channels.
This research report was independently produced...
EMVCo Virtual TEE Certification
- Whitepaper
- Date: October 22, 2018
- Author(s): Kyle Marchini, Test Test
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
This original report, sponsored by MagicCube, examines the potential impact of EMVCo's pending virtual trusted execution environment (vTEE) certification and the advantages and drawbacks of vTEEs compared to current approaches, such as physical ...
Addressing the Threat of False Positive Declines
- Javelin Report
- Date: October 17, 2018
- Author(s): Kyle Marchini
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
In the fight against credit and debit card fraud, merchants and issuers unwittingly create unintended casualties when they decline a legitimate cardholder’s transaction because of suspected fraud. No one wins when a “false positive” decline happ...
Innovation in Security: Black Hat 2018
- Javelin Report
- Date: October 2, 2018
- Author(s): Sean Sposito, Test Test
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
There are few shows that bring together more security vendors than UBM Technology Group’s annual Black Hat conference. Squeezed between BSides Las Vegas and DEF CON, the conference’s two days of briefings bring together thousands of attendees an...