A Nucleus of Information-Sharing: Mastercard’s Fusion Center
When it comes to addressing global fraud and security in the financial sector, it takes a network to defeat a network.
Post-9/11, we found that we were winning our fights but we weren’t winning the war,” says Matt Nyman, Fusion Center Director for Mastercard. Nyman previously served with Delta Force and the Joint Special Operations Command, and he helped to stand up the first Fusion Centers within the U.S. government following 9/11.
With so many government agencies and departments involved in security operations abroad (such as eliminating key targets or searching for specific terrorists), the essential flow of information was so slow and clunky that only three operations could be coordinated each month.