Tracy Kitten

Director, Fraud & Security

Tracy Kitten is a recognized fraud and cybersecurity subject matter expert within the financial services community. A veteran journalist who covered fraud, payments, financial technology and cybersecurity for the last 20 years, Tracy has watched attacks and cyberthreats evolve, having spoken with countless industry experts, practitioners and sometimes even hackers to anticipate what’s coming next. 

As the Director of Fraud and Security at Javelin Strategy & Research, Tracy brings her years of experience to help the practice and its clients grow and strengthen their resiliency.

Prior to joining Javelin, Tracy served as Director of Security Information Services at FS-ISAC, the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center – an industry consortium dedicated to reducing cyber-risk in the global financial system. Before FS-ISAC, Tracy served as Executive Editor at BankInfoSecurity and Senior Editor at ATM Marketplace. She has presented about financial cybersecurity risk and fraud at numerous industry trade events, including those hosted by ATMIA, RSA, the PCI Council and the Federal Reserve.

Tracy holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history, with a minor in English, from the University of Kentucky.

Latest Insights

August, 2024
Javelin Report
ATO Fraud: Why It Remains FIs' Greatest Fraud Risk

Despite years of anti-fraud investment, account takeover (ATO) continues to plague financial institutions and consumers. Traditional authentication methods offer too many gaps of o...

August, 2024
Javelin Report
Cyber Trust in Banking: Privacy Path to Maturity

For consumers, privacy is the fundamental determinant of cyber trust. The degree to which financial institutions protect consumer privacy and enhance authentication and identity ve...

July, 2024
Impact Note
CrowdStrike Failure Reveals Thin Line Between Cyberattack and ‘Incident’

Called the largest IT outage in history, the defective content update pushed out by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike on July 19 affected 8.5 million Windows-based devices worldwide, ...

Events

August 6, 2023 | 07:00 AM to 11:30 AM (CST)
Tracy Kitten, Director, Fraud & Security at Javelin will present at the 35th Annual Crimes Against C...
October, 2021
Join Tracy Kitten, Director of Fraud & Security and Suzanne Sando, Senior Analyst of Fraud & Securit...
September, 2021
In this webinar, hear from Javelin Strategy & Research industry analyst, Tracy Kitten and NICE Actim...

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