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Businesses @ Work: Analyzing the Apps and Services of Finance Industry 2018

The apps financial services organizations depend on to fuel productivity, innovation and success are truly unique. But how is the industry evolving to adopt new technology that can offer the reliability, security and compliance it requires? Download Okta's annual Businesses @ Work report which provides an in-depth...

Experian Case Study: Transforming an Established Enterprise Built on Legacy Software

Experian is transforming from a credit reporting agency to a customer-driven data services company, and at the heart of all its services lies the need for secure, user-friendly authentication at every stage of the employee and customer experience. That's no small task, and they had to start with an established...

Case Study: Enhancing User Experience While Mitigating Risk

Restaurant reservation service OpenTable aims to create an amazing dining experience for its millions of users. Sift Science enabled OpenTable to scale a highly successful digital gift cards program without increasing risk. Read the case study to learn how to: Limit manual review; Move from a manual...

Top Cybercrime Threats to Financial Institutions in 2018

Financial institutions and their customers are no strangers to cyber threats, but attacks have evolved and have become specific to different types of organizations; banks, credit unions, insurance companies and private equity groups all face unique challenges. Threats exist from a range of actors including...

Bank Employee Offering Insider Information

This case study illustrates how Digital Shadows helped the head of threat intelligence at a bank discover a user on the dark web claiming to be a bank employee selling access to high net worth individual's accounts. The fact that the seller appeared to be an employee, this threat was of heightened priority to this...

A New Look at Email Security: How to Improve Detection of Malicious Payloads

File-less malware is a huge security challenge for organizations today, and traditional email security controls aren't sufficient to meet the challenge. It's time for a new approach email security. The big issue is: The malicious payloads shift so much. It's really easy to do 100 variants of the same malicious...

Application Security: Why the Whole Company Needs to be on Board

While board level executives understand the concepts and terms used in network security and perimeter security, application security, as a concept and discipline, is not quite firmly defined. AppSec is much different than other security domains, so applying the standard methods does not necessarily address the unique...

Conquering Complexity in Endpoint Management

As your endpoint infrastructure becomes increasingly complex, maintaining patch deployments and policies that cover vulnerabilities needs to be a top priority for IT professionals. A recent analysis by Aberdeen Group shows that the volume of critical endpoint vulnerabilities, and the percentage of vulnerabilities...

Why Your Organization Needs Better Endpoint Management

The current state of endpoint security is a "good news / bad news" situation. The good news is that in recent years there has been a modest trend towards fewer vulnerability disclosures, meaning slightly fewer potential ways for computing infrastructures to be exploited. The bad news is that an increasing percentage...

2018 State of The Phish Report ®

The 2018 State of the Phish Report presents analysis of data from tens of millions of simulated phishing attacks sent through our Security Education Platform. The report captures and delivers the types of data infosec professionals are seeking as they develop their own security awareness training programs. These...

The Complexities of Vulnerability & Patch Management

There are massive amounts of vulnerabilities that companies deal with on an ongoing basis - not everything is lost though. Organizations that use unpatched software face a race against the clock, with attackers regularly beginning to hammer new vulnerabilities just hours after new fixes or security alerts get released...

Adopt DNS Best Practices To Proactively Protect Against Malware

The cyber threat landscape is dynamic and accelerating. These DNS best practices, when coupled with an enterprise threat protection service, will aid you in identifying, blocking, and mitigating advanced, targeted threats.

How Financial Institutions Must Adopt a New Mindset in Fighting Fraud

With the changing shift in fraud these days, a fraud risk manager really needs to look at the landscape holistically, from the perspective of the customer, with regards to fraud losses and operational expenses. The task then falls on these managers to address these challenges in a way that provides a frictionless...

The Fraud Challenges in Mobile Financial Services

Since mobile banking usage is set to grow exponentially, banks must overcome structural challenges and reconcile consumers' appetite for ease of use with the desire for greater security. There are a growing number of fintech startups that have been able to overstep the legacy cost structures and regulatory...

The Device Fingerprinting Evolution

For over a decade, a crucial part of fraud detection has been assigning an identity to every laptop, tablet, and mobile device that accesses a website or app. Such a fingerprint is a representation of hundreds of different device-specific values taken from an end user's device. Today's device fingerprinting...