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Payments Authentication Success Leans on Consistent User Experiences
Authentication // May 24, 2024

Today’s rapidly evolving payments and financial landscape brings with it both challenges and opportunities. And the challenges and opportunities center around effective authentication, as the need for advanced security measures to keep pace with the evolving payment methods and fraud tactics becomes an imperative. That’s what Gerhard...

Fraudsters Cook Up Slicker Recipes as More Transactions Move Online
Fraud Attack // December 18, 2023

Financial fraud remains a persistent challenge across industries, and its threat is further sharpened by technological complexity and the growing sophistication of bad actors.  “Fraud is growing and the recipes are getting slicker,” Gerhard Oosthuizen, CTO at Entersekt, told PYMNTS. “It is dovetailing nicely with generative AI...

Getting Consumers Ready to Move From Passwords to Passkeys
Authentication // June 29, 2023

Passwords — and even one-time passcodes (OTPs) — render us vulnerable to fraudsters, which has always been so.   The fraudsters are stepping up their attacks as we live more of our lives than ever online. Gerhard Oosthuizen, chief technology officer at Entersekt, and Mike Storiale, vice president,...

Rise of Behavioral Fraud Makes Smart Prevention Critical for Businesses 
Security & Fraud // April 05, 2023

Employees are simultaneously a company’s first line of defense and their weakest link. That is because as today’s quick-moving, instant-everything modern world offers more hyperconnected vulnerabilities for bad actors to exploit, behavioral-driven fraud tactics are becoming an increasingly popular approach for breaching a firm’s defenses....

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Payments Authentication Success Leans on Consistent User Experiences

May 24, 2024
Today’s rapidly evolving payments and financial landscape brings with it both challenges and opportunities. And the challenges and opportunities center around effective authentication, as the need for advanced security measures to keep pace with the evolving payment methods and fraud tactics becomes an imperative. That’s what Gerhard Oosthuizen, chief technology officer at Entersekt, told PYMNTS for the “What’s […]

Fraudsters Cook Up Slicker Recipes as More Transactions Move Online

December 18, 2023
Financial fraud remains a persistent challenge across industries, and its threat is further sharpened by technological complexity and the growing sophistication of bad actors.  “Fraud is growing and the recipes...

Getting Consumers Ready to Move From Passwords to Passkeys

June 29, 2023
Passwords — and even one-time passcodes (OTPs) — render us vulnerable to fraudsters, which has always been so.   The fraudsters are stepping up their attacks as we live more of...

Consumers Willing to Trade Convenience to Better Protect Private Data

March 16, 2023
Consumers across age, income and lifestyle demographics are concerned about the safety of their personal information. When it comes to consumer-facing sectors such as retail or banking, convenience isn’t always...