Fraud and Security
Mitigate Security Threats and Keep Accounts and Identities Safe
Criminals’ tactics are always changing. So is the technology that can help head them off. Javelin’s analysis can help keep financial institutions—and thus their customers—a step ahead. Further, Javelin can help you position your customers as partners in protecting their own information from would-be thieves.
Recent Fraud and Security Research
Reports
Shields Up: How Financial Institutions Should Brace for Targeted Cyberattacks
The U.S. government is warning U.S. firms to prepare for possible Russian cyberattacks due to the West's economic sanctions on Russia and support of Ukraine. This note explores the specifics of the U.S. government's "Shields Up" warnings, and re...
Robo Nation: The Threat of Communication-Based Fraud
Consumers are unable to escape the increasing surge of robocalls, scam texts and phishing emails that were heightened by the pandemic and continue on an upward trend. But communication-based fraud is about more than just causing aggravation for ...
Drain Data Lakes to Fill Rivers and Build Harbors with Sensitive Data
Financial services companies are increasingly faced with data overload, and the problem is only getting worse, as increasing amounts of sensitive consumer and corporate data reside on multiple servers and applications across enterprises. Unfortu...
Identity Fraud: The Virtual Battleground
Join us for an interactive panel moderated by John Buzzard, Javelin’s Lead Analyst of Fraud & Security and the author of The Virtual Battleground, the 2022 installment of Javelin’s annual identity fraud study.
2022 Identity Fraud Study: The Virtual Battleground
Javelin Strategy & Research, in its 19th year of putting together studies of identity fraud, sees such crime as a growing infiltration into financial services. Whether it’s traditional identity fraud—involving the use of personal information for...
BYOD and Spyware: Are Employees Putting Business at Risk?
Employees who access company systems from personal laptops, smartphones, and tablets put their firms’ and consumers’ intellectual property and sensitive information in danger. And the risks keep growing, not only from traditional phishing and fr...
The Future of Authentication: Acceptance of Voice Biometrics
Financial institutions face an immediate need to integrate voice authentication to help protect consumers from identity fraud. In this report, Javelin outlines this need and explores consumers’ acceptance of voice biometrics and what FIs can do ...
2022 Identity Protection Service Provider Scorecard
Consumers are looking for better protection against fraud, and an identity protection service (IDPS) — whether bought directly from a vendor or, as Javelin Strategy & Research suggests, provided as a free or low-cost offering from a trusted inst...
Securing Business Communication Channels
Phishing attacks and business email compromise continue to be major threats to the security of financial services firms. Between insufficient employee cybersecurity training and lacking technology and communications policies, organizations shoul...
Reducing the Attack Surface in an Expanding Digital World
All businesses today are at greater risk of attack because their surfaces of access-points, endpoints and digital channels have greatly increased, as the COVID-19 pandemic expanded the remote workforce and the use of digital channels. More relia...