Fraud & Identity

Synthetic identity fraud is on the rise across financial services, ecommerce, public sector, health and utilities markets. The long-term impact of synthetic identity remains to be seen and will hinge largely upon forthcoming efforts across the identity ecosystem made up of service providers, institutions and agencies, data aggregators and consumers themselves.

Javelin Strategy & Research announced the 2017 Identity Proofing Platform Awards. We were honored to see CrossCore as the identity proofing platform winner.

Third-party and first-party schemes are now interchangeable, and traditional fraud detection practices are less effective in fighting these evolving fraud types.

We recently analyzed millions of online transactions from the first half of 2017 to identify fraud attack rates. Here are the top 3 riskiest states for e-commerce billing and shipping fraud for H1 2017

An Experian survey shows that many consumers still seriously underestimate their risk of falling victim to identity theft.

Everyone has a role in cybersecurity. Cybersecurity cannot be successful if siloed. The entire organization must be part of the effort.

With minimal risk and high reward at stake, e-commerce fraud attacks have increased dramatically over the last few years, with no signs of slowing down.

Too many C-suite executives are disengaged with their organization’s cybersecurity efforts. That indifference can seriously hamper an organization’s ability to quickly and effectively respond to an incident. To best protect the organization, take the following steps to increase engagement:

Multiple studies suggest many executives aren’t as engaged as they should be when ensuring their organizations are prepared to mitigate and manage cybersecurity risks. Insights from our Fourth Annual Data Breach Preparedness Survey, conducted by the Ponemon Institute, support this sentiment.

With today's digital identity, how do you know you’re interacting with a legitimate individual rather than an imposter?

Companies can help consumers manage the potential and real fallout of a data breach by offering post-breach monitoring services.

A synthetic identity epidemic is impacting all markets. Here are the three ways that synthetic identities are generally created

Despite the escalating risks of falling victim to a global data breach, this survey shows a widespread lack of preparedness among companies.

Synthetic identity fraud is an epidemic that does more than negatively affect portfolio performance. It can hurt your reputation as a trusted organization.

Synthetic ID fraud is a growing problem driven by an online and mobile-driven market, along with an increase in data breaches and dark web sharing.