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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
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...
Technology Warranties: Vendors Find a Ready Market in Financial Institutions
- Javelin Report
- Date: August 30, 2018
- Author(s): Sean Sposito
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
Despite warnings from academics, former intelligence community officials, and federal law enforcement, some security professionals at financial services companies harbor a willingness to attack their adversaries. Not necessarily to destroy outsi...
The London Protocol
- Javelin Report
- Date: August 22, 2018
- Author(s): Sean Sposito, Test Test
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
Amidst an increasing number of phishing reports involving digital certificates, several Certificate Authorities (CAs) have banded together. For the first time, these arbiters of digital trust are cooperating in an effort to proactively ensure th...
‘GDPR Lite’ California Privacy Act Mandates Modern Privacy Practices
- Javelin Report
- Date: July 23, 2018
- Author(s): Sean Sposito, Test Test
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal that impacted roughly 87 million Facebook users, California lawmakers have quickly pushed through privacy legislation that could become a standard for how U.S. banks handle customer information.1 Th...
Securing Emerging Channels: Virtual Assistants, the Internet of Things, and Beyond
- Javelin Report
- Date: July 19, 2018
- Author(s): Kyle Marchini, Test Test
- Research Topic(s): Fraud & Security, Fraud Management
Connected cars, light bulbs, voice assistants, chatbots, and more! The “Internet of things” (IoT) is expanding swiftly with new types of devices, many of them carrying potential to support banking and payment services. These emerging channels of...
2018 Trust in Banking
- Javelin Report
- Date: June 27, 2018
- Author(s): Kyle Marchini, Test Test
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
This report ranks seventeen of the largest financial institutions in the US according to their level of trust among accountholders and considers the factors that can engender or undermine trust in a financial institution.
Hacking Back: Playing with Fire
- Javelin Report
- Date: June 27, 2018
- Author(s): Sean Sposito, Test Test
- Research Topic(s): Cybersecurity, Fraud & Security
Despite warnings from academics, former intelligence community officials, and federal law enforcement, some security professionals at financial services companies harbor a willingness to attack their adversaries. Not necessarily to destroy outsi...
The Rebirth of Identity Protection in Financial Services
- Whitepaper
- Date: June 27, 2018
- Author(s): Test Test, Kyle Marchini
- Research Topic(s): Fraud Management, Fraud & Security
This original report, sponsored by EZShield, examines the opportunity for financial institutions to offer identity protection services to their accountholders, in light of the fraud threats faced by digital-first consumers. With consumers facing...