Protect Customer Identities and Reduce Security Risk
Financial institutions face a growing range of fraud and cybersecurity threats, from account takeover and identity fraud to scams and data breaches. Javelin helps organizations identify emerging risks, evaluate evolving attack methods, and develop strategies to protect customer accounts, identities, and data. Our research also provides guidance on fraud prevention, cybersecurity best practices, customer education, and building trust in an increasingly complex threat landscape.
Recent Fraud Management and Cybersecurity Research
Reports
The Evolution of New Account Fraud
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
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.
2019 Identity Protection Service Market Report
After a challenging 2017, the identity protection service (IDPS) market rebounded in 2018, growing 16% to reach $4.3 billion in revenue. While notable growth in direct-to-consumer sales demonstrates that many consumers value the protections offe...
Protecting Instant Payments in the US: P2P and Beyond
This original report, sponsored by NICE Actimize, examines the fraud threats facing instant payments and charts a path forward for organizations to learn about the challenges and best practices from previous faster payments initiatives ...
The Cloud Conundrum: Banks Balance Customer Privacy and Business Efficiency
This report outlines the types of cloud services FIs are adopting, as well as the perceived security threats that accompany such applications.
RSA Conference: Innovation in a Sea of Booths
This report spotlights several new and innovative vendors based on a select set of criteria. The firms had to have marketed themselves to financial services clients; be considered an early-stage company (no more than B-Series funding); offer an ...
The Small Bank Security Leadership Shortage
When questioned about their top priorities, security professionals inside small banks and credit unions often cite, protecting their retail banking clients. But when compared to their larger peers, they are generally less prepared to do so. At l...
2019 Identity Fraud Study: Fraudsters Seek New Targets and Victims Bear the Brunt
Javelin’s 2019 Identity Fraud Study provides comprehensive analysis of fraud trends in the context of a changing technological and regulatory environment in order to inform consumers, financial institutions, and businesses on the most effective ...
Decentralized Authentication
This original research report, sponsored by HYPR, was independently produced by Javelin Strategy & Research. Javelin Strategy & Research maintains complete independence in its data collection, findings, and analysis.
For most consumers,...
2019 ATM Security: Taking a Holistic Approach to Protecting the Automated Teller Machine
This report will break down into two categories the risks that ATMs face: logical attacks that focus on the weaknesses embedded within the device’s software and operating systems, and physical ones that involve crooks breaking locks to cash disp...