Current analysis on payment security, fraud prevention, AML/KYC, and PCI DSS compliance.
AML and KYCScope - What This Guide Covers This guide focuses on detecting and preventing trade-based money laundering (TBML) for AML compliance teams at financial institutions handling cross-border trade finance
AML and KYCThe Question at Hand When drafting a Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) narrative, you re addressing two audiences: your compliance team and law enforcement. Your compliance team needs to understand the
AML and KYCYou ve filed the Suspicious Activity Report . Now comes the harder question: do you keep the client, exit them, freeze the account, or continue monitoring? The answer depends entirely on where you ope
Incident Response and SkimmingWhat Happened St. Luke s University Health Network runs incident response operations where speed is critical. Like many security teams, they ve explored AI-driven automation to manage the workload. Ho
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Regulations and StandardsYour IAM policy documents look perfect. Your access reviews happen quarterly. Yet, when your auditor asks for proof that your applications enforce those policies, you find a gap you didn t know existe
Regulations and StandardsYour sanctions screening catches 98% of hits in testing. Your board wants independent validation. Do you build internal testing capacity or bring in a third party? This isn t an either-or question. Th
Incident Response and SkimmingYou re considering AI-powered incident response tools, but your team is still grappling with basic asset inventory and inconsistent runbooks. Before adding another dashboard, use this checklist to ens
AML and KYCYou ve probably heard a compliance colleague say something like we flag layering patterns or our transaction monitoring catches structuring. But when the Italian mafia organization Ndrangheta executes
Fraud TypologiesThe Conventional Wisdom When ANZ warned about the rise in scam-coaching, where criminals provide victims with scripts to deceive bank security measures, the industry s immediate response was predictab
Cryptography FundamentalsYou re evaluating post-quantum cryptography for your payment infrastructure. Your team has read about NTRU, ML-KEM, and lattice-based schemes. Now they re asking practical questions in Slack: Will thi
Fraud Detection AnalyticsSocial engineering is now the main driver of fraud in over half of surveyed institutions. Standard controls often miss it because the legitimate customer authorizes the payment. They re using valid cr
AML and KYCWhat Happened A defendant in the Netherlands opened 46 bank accounts using deepfake technology to bypass remote identity verification . He combined his own features with passport photos obtained throu
Authentication MethodsHuntress documented a 155x surge in password spraying attacks during the first half of 2026. This spike wasn t just due to brute-force attempts. Attackers combined credential reuse with a deprecated O
Fraud Detection AnalyticsFraud prevention systems built for human-speed attacks can t keep up when criminals use AI automation. The gap between credential compromise and fraudulent use has shrunk. Card-testing attacks increas
Key ManagementScope This guide explains auditable continuous group key agreement (Au-CGKA), an extension to Messaging Layer Security that supports audit capabilities while preserving Point-to-Point Encryption (P2PE
Cryptography FundamentalsYour fraud detection model needs to analyze transaction patterns without accessing cardholder data. Here s a configuration template that uses homomorphic encryption for inference workloads, allowing y
