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
Phishing Banks: Tactics and Implications
This report examines the concerns and attitudes of financial institutions regarding this crime of virtual deceit. It also highlights and explores the solutions that FIs believe are most helpful in the fight against phishing.
2018 Mobile Biometrics Platform Scorecard
This report evaluates twelve of the leading mobile biometric authentication platform providers to assess the capabilities they offer in authenticating customers
Preserving Trust in Digital Financial Services: The Role of Identity and Authentication
This original report, sponsored by IBM Security examines the role of identity verification and authentication in building trust in financial services, both in helping accountholders trust their financial institutions and in enabling financial inst...
Overcoming the Top Ten Challenges to Omnichannel Fraud Management
This original report, sponsored by RSA, examines the challenges that financial institutions face in trying to manage fraud schemes that cross, and take advantage of, different banking channels.
This research report was independently produced...
EMVCo Virtual TEE Certification
This original report, sponsored by MagicCube, examines the potential impact of EMVCo's pending virtual trusted execution environment (vTEE) certification and the advantages and drawbacks of vTEEs compared to current approaches, such as physical ...
Addressing the Threat of False Positive Declines
In the fight against credit and debit card fraud, merchants and issuers unwittingly create unintended casualties when they decline a legitimate cardholder’s transaction because of suspected fraud. No one wins when a “false positive” decline happ...
Innovation in Security: Black Hat 2018
There are few shows that bring together more security vendors than UBM Technology Group’s annual Black Hat conference. Squeezed between BSides Las Vegas and DEF CON, the conference’s two days of briefings bring together thousands of attendees an...
Technology Warranties: Vendors Find a Ready Market in Financial Institutions
Despite warnings from academics, former intelligence community officials, and federal law enforcement, some security professionals at financial services companies harbor a willingness to attack their adversaries. Not necessarily to destroy outsi...
The London Protocol
Amidst an increasing number of phishing reports involving digital certificates, several Certificate Authorities (CAs) have banded together. For the first time, these arbiters of digital trust are cooperating in an effort to proactively ensure th...
‘GDPR Lite’ California Privacy Act Mandates Modern Privacy Practices
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal that impacted roughly 87 million Facebook users, California lawmakers have quickly pushed through privacy legislation that could become a standard for how U.S. banks handle customer information.1 Th...