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
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 Synthetic identities, deepfakes, and first-party fraud are exposing gaps in outdated approaches.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...
Blended threats, real-time defenses: Confronting the rise of identity fraud in 2025
Fraud experts Jennifer Pitt from Javelin and Carmel Maher from Mitek as they break down key takeaways from the Javelin 2025 Identity Fraud Study: Breaking Barriers to Innovation. We explore how today’s hybrid fraud landscape demands a new genera...
The Hidden Enemy: Iran’s Cyberthreat to U.S. Banks
Disinformation is among the leading cyber risks predicted in the wake of the June 21 U.S. strikes on Iran’s nuclear program. On June 22, the Department of Homeland Security issued an alert about increased cyber risk to critical infrastructure be...
Unmasking Scambiguity: Tackling the Scam Threat With Clarity and Confidence
This report, sponsored by BioCatch, explores five key scam typologies (purchase scams, romance scams, investment scams, bank impostor scams, and government agent impostor scams) currently used by criminals to target various groups of U.S. consum...
Account Takeover: Static Authentication Enables Access Without Confirmation
Account takeover (ATO) is surging, and the problem is getting dimensionally worse. Banks that rely on outdated, one-time authentication and static identity verification strategies are unable to combat this problem against criminals employing sop...