According to IDC’s 2018 Data Services for Hybrid Cloud Survey: » 65% of enterprise IT security, line-of-business IT, and data management specialists cited a medium to robust digital rights management deployment in their organization. » Organizations are struggling to secure data across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. More than 37% of survey respondents indicated that the growing complexity of security solutions is a significant challenge that often impedes data governance policy enforcement.

This annual report from Symantec offers insights into formjacking, cryptojacking, ransomware, supply chain attacks, targeted attacks, the cloud, IoT, and even discusses Election Interference. As always the facts and figures are intriguing. Read on!

From July 2017 through June 2018, Secureworks CTU researchers analyzed incident response outcomes and conducted original research to gain insight into threat activity and behavior across 4,400 companies. This report offers answers and insights from their key findings. Read on to learn more.

This brief but important report offers information into the events and data from the holiday shopping season of 2018.

The 2018 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA), has been and continues to be one of the flagship strategic products for Europol. It provides a unique law enforcement focused assessment of the emerging threats and key developments in the field of cybercrime over the last year.

This report analyzes many of the cyber security situations from 2018 and offers some predictions for 2019.

This report takes a deep dive into examining the types of fraud that occur in the travel industry.

This report offers an inside look into how accounts are hacked and taken over.

From the report, “Partnering with retailers for over a decade to detect and prevent online fraud has unearthed many insights about eCommerce criminals. One insight is that while detecting and preventing fraudster attacks is good, it is even better to catch and prosecute. But gathering evidence and building a case can be complex. Kount asked Skip Myers and Chad Evans to share best practices and firsthand success stories with building, submitting cases and engaging with law enforcement to not only catch fraudsters, but to bring them to justice.”

From the report, “The Digital Single Market, Revised Payment Services Directive and the General Data Protection Regulation are all complex and occasionally bewildering pieces of legislation, which aim to transform the European online market and improve services by promoting innovation. However, as they are yet to be fully implemented, organisations are understandably concerned about what they will look like in practice as opposed to on paper. Will global merchants from outside the region still be able to compete in Europe or will the new regulations be used as a form of protectionism? Will they fight fraud and chargebacks or unwittingly contribute to them? And how will Brexit – the unstable factor in the immediate future of the EU – impact all of this? As merchants and others wait in anticipation for the final stages of these three policy initiatives to take shape, The Chargeback Company is joined by contributors from ACI Worldwide and Kount to analyse the likely implications and opportunities for doing business in Europe from 2018.”

Kount and The Fraud Practice designed the State of CNP False Positives survey because false positives are one of the least, if not the least, understood aspects of risk management. While merchants tend to focus directly on chargebacks and fraud losses, false positives are another major source of lost revenue but are often underestimated if not ignored altogether.

Scott Adams has been at the front lines fighting fraud in the world of online games as former Vice-Chair Merchant Board at Payments Ed Forum, and former Director of Fraud and Risk Management at Riot Games. For nearly four years, he led his group to greatly reduce fraud and increase account security for the millions of people who play League of Legends worldwide. Scott’s experience and expertise includes Payment Processing, Anti-Fraud/Chargeback Management, and Connecting the Marketing/Business Departments with Customer Service and Information Technology Departments (Cross-Departmental Communications). Kount asked him to share his industry expertise and insights for combating card-not-present (CNP) fraud in the Online Games market.

From the report, “The bottom line is that good customers who transact online are suffering a bad purchasing experience – and this is doubly harmful to both card issuers and merchants. Cardholders may elect to abandon a purchase altogether, seek a different online store to minimize purchase friction, or pull out a different card – sending their go-to card to the back of wallet. This paper explores the size of the problem, explains the destructive impact on customers who are wrongly turned away, delves into why transactions are declined and reveals how the industry currently manages declines from both a card issuer and merchant perspective. Finally, it presents some possible approaches to the problem, including several pilot programs that Ethoca currently has underway with card issuers and merchants.”

This report offers the latest trends and insights into securing digital identities and transactions.

This guide offers helpful insight into online fraud.

From the report, “The report also looks at the trends in the usage by fraudsters of specific methods or directions of attack (e.g. location manipulation, account takeover, etc.). This is to provide insight into the various techniques commonly employed by today’s savvy fraudster. The increased sophistication of the online criminal underworld, where a huge and connected marketplace exists to provide numerous services that make theft easier (and where stolen data can be found easily and cheaply following the massive data breaches of the last few years), means that fraudsters have direct access to the tools and information they need to commit online fraud. This has lowered the barrier to entry for new fraudsters to enter, and enabled experienced fraudsters to increase the scale, sophistication and speed of their attacks. This report is designed to reflect the current patterns in that scene and help merchants to understand further and prepare for the attacks they are seeing or are likely to face.” Read on to find out more.

From the report, “At Feedzai, we recently completed a project: building a machine learning system to perform transaction fraud detection for a global payment service provider. This client does over a million transactions a day. We designed, trained, tested, and compared hundreds of models in just over a month. In the end we achieved a 16 percentage point increase in money recall with 20x fewer alerts. The fact that we’re continuing to deliver on projects of this scale, in this speed, makes me excited for the future. In this paper, I want to discuss why speed of data science matters, why we’re able to achieve it, and why it helps us deliver value for enterprises fighting fraud. ” Read on to find out more.

This is the Latin American focussed section of the Lloyd’s City Risk Index.

From the report, “The widespread digitization of financial services is causing large-scale and sweeping transformations across various facets of the business, creating new growth opportunities but also new challenges and inherent risk. In the insurance sector, particularly, digital transformation is driven by new competitive threats, ongoing cost pressures, aging technology and increasing regulatory requirements. Put all together, there is a huge opportunity to modernize, to create new business models, acquire customers on new channels and create competitive and compelling customer experiences. ” Read on to find out more.

From the report, “Forter and PYMNTS.com have partnered to track, analyze and report on important fraud trends in the world of payments and online commerce. Every quarter, we monitor fraud attempts on U.S. merchant websites to give you the latest insights on what’s going on. (Note: For each of the Indexes in 2016, we’re using 2015’s fraud rates as a benchmark.) Our take-home this quarter: Fraud rates are climbing. They climbed last quarter and are still climbing this quarter. In fact, overall fraud rates have increased by 14 percent from last quarter to this quarter. To find out how fraudsters are doing it and what methods they favor, keep reading.” Read on to find out more.

From the report, “Forter and PYMNTS.com have partnered to track, analyze and report on the important trends happening in the world of fraud as it relates to payments and commerce online. Every quarter, we are monitoring fraud attempts, reflected as a percent of U.S. sales transactions , on U.S. merchant websites. How big is the storm? Where is it? How is it changing? Read on to find out. For each of the Index editions in 2016, we are using the fraud rates observed in 2015 as a benchmark for comparing the state of fraud each quarter.” Read on to find out more.