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Entersekt recognized as leading vendor for account takeover prevention in banking by Liminal

The Payments Association

Entersekt was recognised as a Leading Vendor, and highest rated Authentication-Focused Vendor, in the July 2024 Liminal Link Index for Account Takeover (ATO) Prevention in Banking report. Leading Vendors are categorized as “Strong overall solutions that possess the must-have product and strategic capabilities for this use case.”

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Veriff’s 2025 Identity Fraud Report reveals rapid rise in fraud for payment providers

The Payments Association

Drawn from deep analysis of our customer data and our field research over the last 12 months, this report, which you can download here , is our most comprehensive yet and covers more industries, regions, fraud types, and use cases than ever before.

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Keeping Cybercrooks Out Of Digital-First Banking

PYMNTS

This new vigilance is the result of rampant cybertheft throughout the pandemic, from brazenly diverting government Paycheck Protection Program loans to the bad businesses of credential theft and account takeovers. Brown also pointed out the growing use cases for biometrics, calling facial and fingerprint recognition a good start.

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Cybersecurity Trends For 2024 With TransUnion, Forter, WatchGuard, Vouched, FIDO Alliance, Fusion

The Fintech Times

“A similarly damaging trend is account takeovers (ATOs) where a bad actor gains access and takes over an online account using stolen or hacked credentials. When you think about it, it’s the high-tech version of social engineering. Deep fake threats John Baird, co-founder and CEO of Vouched.

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Deep Dive: How Digital ID Verification Helps Build Trust in Carsharing and Housesharing Platforms

PYMNTS

Sharing economy businesses looking to keep their guests safe must deter data breaches that continually threaten organizations and can allow cybercriminals to steal usernames and passwords to access accounts. Other account takeover (ATO) schemes involve bots, which can conduct some 100 hits per second.

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Deep Dive: Unsupervised Machine Learning Steps Up To Fight Fraud

PYMNTS

Account takeover (ATO) fraud proved to be particularly effective, causing $4 billion in losses. Possible use cases include determining how likely it is that a customer who purchased one item would buy a related product. Fraud losses hit $14.7 billion last year, according to the latest DataVisor Fraud Index Report.

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Why Payments Should Stop Worrying About ‘The Next Big Thing’

PYMNTS

At the close of 2018, a lot of people are hurting, either from climbing in too late or having lost their savings through account takeovers or hacking. Surely, we should first focus on the issues we want to address — faster payments, account takeover, and customer experience — then explore how we do it.