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
Manage the Investment: Maximizing Budgets for Fraud Prevention
This report, sponsored by Galileo, examines the various fraud typologies affecting the financial services industry, the limitations of existing fraud prevention solutions, and the critical drivers for purchasing innovative technology. It provide...
Dark Web Threat Intel: Critical Pillar of Modern Cybersecurity
In 2023, a wide range of cross-sector businesses ranked dark web intelligence tools as their most effective fraud, identity, and authentication methods. Javelin’s upcoming cybersecurity scorecard, the 2025 Dark Web Threat Intel Vendor Scorecard,...
New-Account Fraud: Old Problem, New Challenges
Fraudsters are finding new ways to open accounts without being detected. By using bots, AI-generated documents, deepfakes, and synthetic identities, they can slip past onboarding controls. This report examines why new-account fraud goes unnotice...
Avoid the Fake: How AI Can Stop Bank Impersonation
Bank impersonation scams are on the rise and getting harder to detect. Criminals are using stolen information and crafting convincing messages to pose as banks, leaving victims in their wake. This report outlines how financial institutions can c...
From Silos to Signals: Strengthening Fraud Detection With Integrated Intelligence
This report, sponsored by Plaid, explores how siloed fraud prevention leaves gaps that fraudsters frequently exploit. It examines why many financial institutions struggle to detect complex fraud patterns, which often occur across multiple channe...
Outsmarting AI-driven fraud
Build smarter defenses. Reduce real losses. Fraud isn’t just evolving—it’s accelerating. Synthetic identities, deepfakes, and first-party fraud are exposing gaps in outdated approaches.
The Understated Cyber Vulnerabilities of Wealth Management Clients
Phishing attacks remain the most pervasive and concerning for wealth clients, but cybersecurity risk as a whole is a growing worry for financial advisors, who feel increasingly ill-equipped to support their clients with and around cyberthreat mi...
Deepfake Accountability: Overcoming Hurdles to Effective Legislation
Deepfakes are not new to the financial services industry, nor are they a new threat to consumers. But artificial intelligence has contributed to the rapid increase in deepfake-related fraud and scams that are being inflicted on U.S. consumers. N...
Real-Time Defenses: Fraud Prevention in a Blended Threat Era
This report, sponsored by Mitek, explores the immediate and long-term risks associated with identity fraud that stems from criminals’ use of a combination of traditional and new data sources and advanced tactics. This report further establishes ...
Multi-Layered Fraud Defense: Strategies for Evolving Threats
This report, sponsored by TransUnion, explores how identity fraud continues to evolve across new and existing accounts, exposing weaknesses in traditional identity verification and authentication processes. This report highlights why many busine...