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Virginia Digital Identity Law Highlights Identity Fraud Prevention
Trusted identity credentials, managed and provided by 3rd-party identity providers as part of trust frameworks, are extremely effective mechanisms for consumers, businesses, and government agencies to...
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Fraud Prevention: Crimes against Revenue on the Rise
Fraud perpetrated by or on behalf of local public assistance recipients continues to be a recurring sore spot in the ability of local jurisdictions to control growing costs, and improve revenue...
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Authentication and Permissions: Proxy Access
Should people share their web site credentials with their spouses? How about their Significant Others? According to a study on internet usage by the Pew Research Center, “Fully 67% of internet users in...
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Allaying concerns about fraud from third-party vendors
Companies have spent a great deal of time and money protecting their core systems and infrastructure from cyber attacks — hardening their perimeters and moving to risk-based authentication for moderate...
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Identity Discovery: The Global Identity Summit
The key to success in discovery of an identity is understanding how disparate data elements combine to form a conclusive identity. A remote (online or mobile) application for access or services could...
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Fraud Mitigation Challenges Across An Account Lifecycle
Businesses face a multitude of challenges in dealing with the overall fraud problem. Protecting against new-account fraud is often a top priority, but fraud occurs at all points in an account...
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National HealthIT Week: Protecting PHI
Protecting protected health information (PHI) requires vigilance in today’s environment of increased sharing of personal information online. National HealthIT Week (Oct 5-9) highlights the importance...
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NYC Fraud Summit: Using Big Data Analytics to Improve Fraud Detection
Laura Stock, Solution Manager, Equifax Identity and Fraud Solutions, will present on Big Data Analytics & Fraud Detection at the NYC ISMG Fraud Summit on October 20, 2015 at the Hyatt Andaz Wall...
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Fraudsters Evolve to Tackle EMV Technology
In an article recently published by Security Magazine, Equifax’s Andy Smith discusses changes to the fraud landscape with the implementation of EMV technology in credit cards and retail. Titled...
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How the Government Is Leveraging Data to Verify Identities
Several members of the Identity and Fraud Solutions team recently attended the Global Identity Summit in Tampa. Rich Huffman, vice president of identity and fraud product management, spoke on a panel...
View ArticleFraud Protection and User Friction – Balancing Opposing Forces in the Online...
The phrase “frictionless customer experience” is getting a lot of play these days, as many more fraud prevention controls are applied to sensitive, online processes that consumers encounter –...
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More Data, Less Fraud
Fraud is increasing on online and mobile channels as EMV adoption limits point-of-sale fraud. Implementing appropriate verification and authentication protections helps minimize fraud losses and...
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Holiday Triple Threat: Data Breaches, Identity Theft, and Fraud
This year has seen its share of data breaches and identity theft. A top concern in this gift-giving season are data breaches that might expose information about children as well as adults, that is...
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Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act included in Federal Budget
On December 18, President Obama signed legislation to encourage businesses to share cyberthreat information with the federal government. The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) is part of the...
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The Fluidity of Credit Card Fraud
Equifax fraud expert, Gasan Awad, was recently published in Fraud Magazine discussing how to help prevent fraud in the new world of chip cards and the EMV liability shift. In particular, Mr. Awad,...
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2016 Security Risks and Solutions
Security Magazine has released their predictions on technology to watch in security – including fighting fraud – for 2016. One breakthrough is developing an exchange of known frauds across various...
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Fraud Mitigation Challenges Across An Account Lifecycle
Businesses face a multitude of challenges in dealing with the overall fraud problem. Protecting against new-account fraud is often a top priority, but fraud occurs at all points in an account...
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Cybersecurity National Action Plan
On February 9, 2016, the President implemented the Cybersecurity National Action Plan (CNAP) designed “to enhance cybersecurity awareness and protections, protect privacy, maintain public safety as...
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Advanced Defense against Account Opening Fraud
ATLANTA, Feb. 26, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Equifax Inc. (NYSE: EFX) today announced the launch of FraudIQ™ Manager, a workflow management solution that helps reduce fraudulent activity associated with the...
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Fraud Mitigation Challenges Across An Account Lifecycle
Businesses face a multitude of challenges in dealing with the overall fraud problem. Protecting against new-account fraud is often a top priority, but fraud occurs at all points in an account...
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