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
2018 Identity Protection Service Provider Scorecard
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...