Fighting Fraud in the Era of Real-Time Payments

How “Layering” Fraud Detection Could Help Hasten Detection and Response

October 30, 2018

Sixty-one percent of merchants believe they’re at greater risk of a data breach than a year ago, while 22 percent of merchants have experienced data theft in the last year alone.

Consumers Rank Security High in Payment Decisions

July 11, 2018

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In the list of considerations for how to pay for purchases, the security of the transaction method tops cash back and loyalty points for most consumers. That's the conclusion of a recent major payment industry study, reinforced by separate results from new private research.

Return of the Lost and Stolen: Authenticating Wearables

Seth Ruden Sr.

April 24, 2018

As smartphones and wearable devices continue their exponential growth in Canada and globally – it’s expected to be worth $34 billion by 2020 – Canadians will need to be wary of the increasingly popular “Tap” payment channel (or alternative NFC wearable device) service.

Payment Card Security and the Arrival of EMV

The risk of payment card fraud is real, driven by the momentum of eCommerce and its cashless consumerism, reliant on payment cards to perform so many transactions. However, the incidence of payment card fraud is expected to change.

Jim Romeo

November 1, 2016

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In 2009 a hacker embedded malware on the point-of-sale (PoS) equipment at a Seattle eatery known as the Broadway Grill.

Biometric Payments Trusted by Majority of Europeans

Kylie Bull

September 1, 2016

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Visa’s Biometric Paymentsstudy, which surveyed 14,000 people across Europe, revealed that 73 percent of people think biometric security checks on a payments device is a secure authentication, with fingerprint the preference for 81% of consumers, followed by iris scanning.

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How CISOs Can Turn Security Training and Awareness into Action

In this webinar, security expert Pieter Danhieux explores how CISOs and CIOs can inspire real change, fostering a positive security culture that enables their development teams to become more security-aware, more aligned with internal AppSec specialists and, ultimately, securing code as it is written.

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