Chief Product Officer, ThreatMetrix
With the near-constant occurrence of highly organized and complex cybercrime attacks, effective digital authentication has never been more challenging. Businesses must verify who they’re transacting with by implementing additional security measures, but at the same time they need to minimize friction and provide seamless user experiences to avoid losing users to competitors. SMS two-factor…
When it comes to banking, e-commerce and other online activities, fraud is one of consumers’ top concerns. In fact, insights from a recent First Annapolis and ThreatMetrix consumer study showed that more than half of consumers (55 percent) are extremely concerned about the risks of banking and payments-related fraud, with 46 percent indicating their fraud concerns have increased in the past two…
It's no secret digital consumers increasingly purchase goods and services via cross-border transactions. Digital commerce has essentially created a global economy without borders. In fact, according to Nielsen’s Global Connected Commerce Report, in February 2016, 57 percent of the respondents made a cross-border e-commerce purchase in the past six months. Recognizing this trend, businesses are…
At the 2016 RSA Conference, there was a lot of buzz surrounding the importance of global threat intelligence sharing. In fact, of the more than 500 exhibitors at the annual conference, 79 companies include threat intelligence sharing as part of their business model. However, such information sharing only works when done right—in an anonymized way that takes into account each user’s full digital…
By the end of 2016 there will be an estimated 6.4 billion connected devices—a 30 percent increase over 2015—as mobile continues to become the channel-of-choice for everything from online banking to e-commerce. This mobile proliferation is attracting cybercriminals too, and they use stolen identities and compromised devices from major data breaches for advantageous financial gain. Given the…
The deadline for U.S. retailers and credit card processors to adopt the Europay-MasterCard-Visa (EMV) global standard chip cards passed in October, and those who have yet to adopt the technology will now be liable for any point-of-sale (POS) fraud losses. Given the high-profile retail data breaches in recent years—including Home Depot, Michael’s, Neiman Marcus and Sally Beauty—all of which were…
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