81 Results from 2019, /security
Andrew Gauvin CEO at Freeport Metrics, Inc.
By Andrew Gauvin and Iurii Oliiar, Freeport Metrics If your business relies on selling anything online, payment is central to your company’s success. A web security strategy is no longer enough – following are seven factors to consider when securing mobile payment apps. 1. Invest in Native Mobile Not Just for Better UX, but Also for the Best Securi...
19 June 2019 /security /payments Fintech
Steve Cook Digital Identity & Biometrics Consultant
Developed in the mid-sixties and first commercially introduced in the 1970s, facial recognition technology has since made huge strides. Now, it's considered a significant feature for major players in mobile and has helped improve security in law enforcement and defence. But given its much improved performance and convenience, it’s important to und...
17 June 2019 /security Biometrics
Retired Member
Part one of this network series highlighted some recent network incidents that impacted the internet and public cloud providers and proliferated the wariness of public cloud. There’s no doubt that outage occurrences will continue to take place across the globe. Bad actors Financial firms need to be particularly security conscious due to the sensit...
06 June 2019 /security /cloud Fintech
Konstantin Rabin Head of Marketing at Kontomatik
When thinking of AI in the context of banking, many people immediately start considering the uses of it to be either customer related or somehow used for optimization processes. Even when considering the security applications of AI, the primary purpose that banks think of applying the technology to becomes fraud prevention when in lending operatio...
05 June 2019 /ai /security Information Security
Across all industries – but particularly those in heavily regulated industries such as finance – the talk is about the shift to the public cloud. It is the buzzword of the moment. Amazon, Google and Microsoft are leading a charge to move as much computing power as possible to cloud-driven services, and everyone seems to be following, with good rea...
04 June 2019 /security /cloud Trends in Financial Services
Jackie Barwell Director at ACI Worldwide
The eCommerce industry is continuing its rapid growth and the lines between physical and digital shopping are becoming increasingly blurred. This change in the way consumers conduct purchases is creating a number of challenges for merchants, especially when it comes to customer visibility and fraud prevention. Providing a good customer experience...
20 May 2019 /security /regulation Transaction Fraud Systems and Analysis
Robert Siciliano Security Analyst at Safr.me
I put an ad on Craigslist to sell a refrigerator that I no longer need. Within a few minutes I’m happy to report Micheal responded to buy it! SCAMMER: Hi am Micheal I like to ask if this item is till available for sale and what the present condition it. ME: Still for sale, someone is interested tho, its like new, 5 months. SCAMMER: Thanks for the...
16 May 2019 /security
You have probably heard of one data breach after another these days, but this is one that you should really pay attention to: more than 772 million unique emails, along with more than 21 million unique passwords, have been exposed. Troy Hunt, who runs the website “Have I Been Pwned,” first reported this breach, and he says that a huge file (87 GB)...
On May 1, 1999, I began my career in the biometrics and identity industry at an unknown, fledgling company called Visionics that was promoting facial recognition in a shrink-wrapped box to allow people to log onto their PCs safely. Admittedly, it didn’t work very well, but it was amusing when people called to complain that they had scanned their p...
14 May 2019 /security Biometrics
You could be forgiven for thinking this should be a rhetorical question – the answer is surely none? However, such is the scale and complexity of managing FICC voice trading systems, with all their interdependencies and interoperability requirements, that the reality is very much the opposite. The story of how IT departments are fighting a constan...
14 May 2019 /security Unified Communications in Financial Services
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