SC Media pulled out all of the stops for its 30th Anniversary Awards celebration, adding a slew of special categories to its annual SC Media Awards. NuData Security became one of the major beneficiaries when its NuDetect behavioral biometrics platform was named the Most Critical Solution in the last 30 years. “NuData has most assuredly…
“NuData is using its native understanding of EMV 3DS to reinvent security for merchants by building safer, smarter ways to verify online transactions.” -Ryan Wilk, VP of Customer Success, NuData NuData is highlighting how its behavioral biometrics technology can be used to boost transaction approvals through EMV 3DS, EMVCo’s “3-D Secure” specification for mobile- and…
Experian is bringing yet more biometric capabilities to its CrossCore anti-fraud platform, thanks to a new partnership with Acuant. The latter is bringing to the table its AssureID solution, which combines document reading with facial recognition in order to match end users against their government-issued IDs. In a statement announcing the partnership, the companies suggested…
FindBiometrics is reporting live from Money20/20 Europe this week, and today biometrics hit the stage. As we’ve seen with other Money20/20 global events, biometrics are becoming a key component in the future of financial identity, and today Mastercard Chief Security Solutions Officer Ajay Bhalla offered insight into how biometric technology fits into his company’s initiatives to…
The Zelle payments network now has four new technology partners – ACI Worldwide, CGI, D3 Banking Technology, and IBM. In a statement announcing the partnerships, Early Warning Services, the payments network’s provider, indicated that its new partners “will provide design, development and integration solutions and services to accelerate the adoption of Zelle at their financial…
As the means of digital fraud grow ever more sophisticated, the subtle art of behavioral biometrics offers a truly powerful defence, argues NuData in a new blog post. According to the company’s own digital security assessments, account takeover attacks have increased by a whopping 630 percent between February and May of this year. Such attacks…
Behavioral Biometrics Month at FindBiometrics culminated with an expert webinar on Wednesday, April 26. The presentation, moderated by FindBiometrics President Peter O’Neill, starts with the latest market research from Maxine Most, Principal, Acuity Market Intelligence, providing an overview of the current behavioral biometrics market. Most is then joined by Ryan Wilk, Vice President, Customer Success,…
FindBiometrics recently dedicated an entire month to behavioral biometrics, the passive modality on the rise promising to change the ways we fight fraud and authenticate users online. As one of the leading vendors in this booming space, NuData Security, a behavioral biometrics company recently acquired by MasterCard, figured prominently into our featured coverage. FindBiometrics had the…
NuData is highlighting some success stories to show how its NuDetect platform is helping to protect its clients from digital fraud. One client, a Fortune 200 company, was using NuDetect on its main eCommerce website, but hadn’t applied the technology to its loyalty program, which was being exploited by a criminal organization using an automated…
NuData Security is a finalist in the European SC Awards, with its NuDetect behavioral biometrics platform nominated in the category of Best Behaviour Analytics/Enterprise Threat Detection. The Excellence Awards are organized by SC Magazine, a resource for IT security professionals, and are determined by a panel of expert judges selected by the SC Media UK editorial…
While numerous vendors at this year’s ISC West security expo continue to demonstrate the utility of traditional biometric modalities like fingerprint scanning and facial recognition, a new kind of biometric technology is poised to take a growing place in the spotlight: behavioral biometrics. Based on the subtle behavioral patterns emerging from how users behave online…
“NuData has proven to be one of the pioneers of the emerging behavioral biometrics approach to security.” Mastercard is going to acquire NuData Security, the companies have announced. In a statement, the companies declined to offer the terms of the agreement, but both committed to the project of integrating NuData and its NuDetect platform into…
Authentication based on behavioral biometrics is easier and safer, argues NuData Security. In a new blog post, the company makes the case that behavioral biometrics is non-intrusive for subjects, and that the behavioral profiles it establishes for users are of no value to hackers. Physical biometrics, while offering useful identity data, could be vulnerable to…
Germany-based financial services provider Arvato has teamed up with NuData Security to deliver to customers an enhanced anti-fraud offering, the companies have announced. While NuData has reported strong client growth with respect to its NuDetect behavioral biometrics platform, this is a different kind of partnership for the company. The companies will work together on a new…
It’s Black Friday, and that means the holiday season kicks off today. Accordingly, NuData security is raising the alarm about digital security threats as more shoppers place orders online. The company says that according to an analysis of its customer base using its NuDetech behavioral analytics platform, fraudsters are working harder than ever. Detected fraud…
NuData Security is calling attention to the digital security threats emerging with the rise of mobile payments in a new blog post. Citing a Cisco forecast, the company asserts that by 2020, 11.6 billion mobile devices will be online, and that growth tracks with mPayment adoption, with Forrester Research predicting that mPayments will total $90…
NuData Security is celebrating some recent attention in industry publications, most notably from a recent Gartner report. The research note, entitled Technology Insight for Biometric Authentication, looks at the advantages of biometric technology for secure authentication. And as NuData points out in a new press release, the company is listed as a provider of multimodal biometric…
“In a statement announcing the new appointments, NuData suggested they would help to maneuver the company through a growth phase…” NuData has announced a couple of major strategic appointments that it says are aimed at adapting to substantial growth. Both are internal promotions. Randy Lukashuk has helped the company in development and programming roles and…
NuData has partnered with the National Anti-Organized Retail Crime Association (NAORCA), a US-based organization with over 3,000 members around the world. The partnership could offer NuData an impactful opportunity to promote its NuDetect platform, which uses behavioral biometrics and analytics—tracking patterns associated with keystrokes, mouse movement, and various other factors—to verify ‘good users’ online while flagging…