Swiss-based NetGuardians and Sweden’s BehavioSec are joining forces to leverage their complementary technologies to provide complete fraud protection to financial institutions – and their clients – around the world. NetGuardians is a FinTech company with specialized expertise in user behavior analytics and profiling to implement controls for fraud and compliance challenges. BehavioSec brings behavioral biometric technology to precisely analyze... more Read more »
NTT DATA UK, has signed a partnership agreement with Privitar to deliver data protection solutions that will ensure companies are compliant with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) when it comes into force. Read more »
Apriva, the provider of secure end-to-end wireless transaction processing solutions, and iPayment, Inc., a provider of payment solutions and processing services, have extended their partnership to provide EMV capable solutions to small and mid-sized businesses (SMB) using mobile points of sale. This extension of iPayment’s point of sale (POS) solutions brings EMV functionality to customers using their mobile payment application, iPayment... more Read more »
Easy Solutions and Alkami™ Technology, Inc. have entered into a partnership to make Easy Solutions’ Total Fraud Protection portfolio of products available as part of Alkami’s digital banking platform. Read more »
Americans are quickly embracing EMV chip cards, just six months after the latest milestone in the migration timeline. While consumers increasingly dip their cards to pay in-store, progress has been made by both card issuers and merchants. MasterCard provided an update on how its cardholders, partners and customers are adopting the safer, more secure EMV chip technology: More than two-thirds – 67 percent – of U.S.-issued MasterCard-branded... more Read more »
Union Bank UK PLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Union Bank of Nigeria PLC, needed better visibility into the different types of sensitive data its employees were storing and accessing across its file systems. Regulatory requirements necessitated that the bank’s IT department regularly audit and report on who was accessing sensitive data, when and where, but they had no way of doing so efficiently. Read more »
Xura, Inc. (NASDAQ: MESG), a leading provider of digital communications services, today announces the availability of its Signaling Fraud Management System, built to protect mobile operators' signaling networks from sophisticated exploits and security threats. Xura's highly efficient and topographically independent solution, provides 360-degree security and privacy protection, addressing many types of signalling network attacks. Read more »
The ICO has ordered Anglesey County Council to improve its data protection practices after it repeatedly failed to address security and privacy issues. Two separate security incidents as far back as 2011 led to the council signing undertakings to make changes and improve practices. But despite committing to the improvements, audit visits in July 2013 and October 2014 still found unresolved problems with the security of personal data. Anne Jones... more Read more »
