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
Biometrics’ Growing Role at the Point of Sale
With mobile banking, person-to-person payments, and mobile wallets, mobile is rapidly becoming the go-to channel for financial activity. All of these activities feature instantaneous response with minimal friction. This expectation has strong im...
Giving Consumers Identity Control
This whitepaper, sponsored by Civic, investigates US-based consumers’ desire to have control over their own identities, and looks at the implications of the current lack of control they have over their own personally identifiable information (PI...
The Financial Impact of Fraud
This whitepaper, sponsored by Vesta Corporation, analyzes the findings of a new independent study that examines how the cost of fraud has significantly increased post-EMV when compared to 2015, and the associated challenges impacting a merchant’...
The Future of Cardholder Verification Methods
As EMV liability shift deadlines come and go, opportunities will remain to further mitigate fraud and improve the cardholder experience. Consumer expectations shaped by mobile proximity payments, the evolving in-store checkout experience, and th...
2016 Data Breach Fraud Impact Report
2015 was a diverse year for breaches. Data theft from government agencies, healthcare providers, financial institutions, telecoms, retailers, and social networks proved that no industry is immune from attack. Many of these breaches exposed infor...
2016 Identity Protection Services Scorecard
Javelin’s ninth annual Identity Protection Services Scorecard examines the health of the identity protection industry as it continues to grow rapidly and expand into new partnership areas.
Mitigating Application Fraud from Synthetic Identities
This whitepaper, sponsored by ID Analytics, explores the challenges that FIs and issuers face against a rising tide of application fraud and how the sharing of intelligence offers long-awaited hope in detecting the synthetic identities that make...
Mobile Wallet Fraud Mitigation
When early cases of Apple Pay fraud garnered media attention, FIs and issuers were forced to confront the menacing specter of a new financial product they did not completely control: mobile wallets. Not only did they face fresh competition from ...
2016 Identity Fraud: Fraud Hits an Inflection Point
On its face, fraud in 2015 appears not to have changed substantially. The total number of victims remained steady at 13.1 million, and the total fraud amount fell slightly to $15 billion. However, that stability masks major changes in fraud in t...
10th Annual Credit Card Issuer Identity Safety Scorecard
Javelin’s 10th Annual Credit Card Issuers’ Identity Safety Scorecard analyzes the customer-facing security features of 20 of the nation’s top credit card issuers – providing timely and actionable benchmarking tailored to current and impending fr...