Multimodal Biometrics: The New Frontier Against Fraud
This new category includes instances when online criminals directly target
consumers, often through a text, call, or email, rather than by obtaining a
person’s personal information at the institutional level, a change in tactics in
recent years that has significant consequences for both individuals and the
companies they do business with. The consumer, Javelin says, has become “the
path of least resistance.” Consumers aren’t the only ones affected by this
change in approach. It has significantly altered the advice we give our banking
and financial services customers, as well. ... Identity verification platforms
with multi-modal biometrics and liveness detection offer next-generation levels
of security. Even better, platforms now entering the market combine multi-modal
biometrics and liveness detection with a frictionless, easy-to-use interface.
With some, customers simply look into their phones or laptop cameras and say a
phrase to easily and securely access an online account. This is the conversation
my colleagues and I are having with our banking and financial institution
customers.
The 5 Most Dangerous Cognitive Biases For Startup Founders
Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for information proving your
already-established worldview, rather than disproving it. It is obvious that
it’s crucial to try to avoid this when constructing your idea or product
validation tests or when talking to customers. Don’t try to defend your
assumptions and decisions - instead, try to gather unbiased feedback so that you
would have a higher confidence level in the results of your tests. Fake
confirmation of your ideas might make your life easier as it would give you a
scapegoat for your failure. Yet, in the long run, it’s much better to have to
overcome your ego and succeed than to defend it but ultimately fail. The
tendency to rely heavily on the first piece of information you have on a topic.
The anchoring bias is often used in negotiations as a trick to bring the
expectations of the opposing party closer to your desired outcome. In startups,
it is very important not to unwittingly play this trick on yourself. For
example, if you’ve been offering a service for free you might feel reluctant to
raise the price significantly even if it is the right thing to do for your
business.
The rise of metaverse shopping
Even as the metaverse continues to gain popularity, it’s important for retailers
to remember that it is still relatively new, she observed. “The reality is there
are so many other channels for retailers to engage customers, such as web,
mobile, in-store and social, and they need to also focus on strengthening those
experiences,” Estes said. Brands should not be trying to match virtual
experiences with traditional in-store experiences, Mason noted, as they are very
different mediums and have different strengths for connecting with customers.
“The key thing to remember is that metaverse experiences are new and opt-in,” he
said. “They need to be fun and engaging for the user to find something
worthwhile in them. After all, moving to a competing brand’s metaverse
experience is just a click or a hand-wave away. It is important for companies to
consider how their brand will translate to a new medium.” Brands should consider
how their brand representatives will greet consumers. Will they be serious, fun
or edgy? What kind of language and voice will be used, and how will their brand
avatar present itself visually?
How intelligent automation will change the way we work
As organizations automate their business processes, there are many potential
hazards to avoid. “The main one is ignoring your people and underestimating
that,” Butterfield said. “Although the outcome is driven by using a technology,
everything up to the actual automation of a process is generally very
people-focused. A lack of change management will unfortunately cause many issues
in the long term. Organizations need to keep their people aligned with their
overall goals.” Security, mainly authentication, is also a key concern, Barbin
said. “Any automation, API [application programming interface] or other,
requires some means to pass access credentials,” he said. “If the systems that
automate and contain those credentials are compromised, access to the connected
systems could be too.” To help minimize that risk, Barbin suggests using SAML
2.0 and other technologies that take stored passwords out of the systems.
Another pitfall is selecting only one technology as the automation tool of
choice. Typically organizations need multiple technologies to get the best
results, said Maureen Fleming, program vice president for intelligent process
automation research at IDC.
How can IT leaders address ‘quiet quitting’?
While this is less likely to be an issue if staff are driven by the
organisation’s vision and purpose, as is often the case with tech startups, it
is still “important to look at what the expectations are on both sides, what’s
reasonable and where compromises could be made”, she says. Klotz also suggests
that part of the reason why some IT leaders, among others, have reacted so
negatively to the idea of quiet quitting idea is over concerns that “paying
extra for everything” could hit profit margins, which in turn could put the
company out of business, particularly in economically difficult times. But he
also points to the dynamic nature of the tech industry, which requires
discretionary working at times simply to deliver on projects. “It’s only if you
ask people to go above and beyond without compensation that it gets exploitative
rather than being part of a healthy functioning relationship,” Klotz says. “But
many companies ask employees to do extra almost as part of the job description,
which is partly why they provide amazing benefits and such good compensation –
people know what they’re getting into and are rewarded for it.”
Applying Enterprise Risk Management to Cyberrisk
Both the reality of cyberthreats and regulatory changes should make it clear to
boards, owners and management that there is a need for better management of
cybersecurity. Enterprise risk management (ERM) is a tool that management and
the board can use to help manage risk across the enterprise, including
cyberrisk. The Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission
(COSO) ERM framework and International Organization for Standardization (ISO)
31000 are two prominent frameworks for ERM. Both frameworks emphasize that for
effective ERM, an organization needs to have oversight from senior management,
organizational structure to support ERM and qualified staff. These and other
capabilities that are needed to support ERM are also necessary to support
cybersecurity and manage cyberrisk; therefore, the contents of both frameworks
are easily and aptly applied to cybersecurity. Organization can learn about the
consequences of ineffective enterprise management of cybersecurity from many
examples around the world including the 2021 ransomware attack on Ireland’s
Health Services Executive (HSE).
Why to Rethink and Update Approaches to Payment Security Management
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“CISOs are increasingly challenged in their efforts to secure payment security
compliance, and in convincing board members and other stakeholders of the
importance and significance of securing strategic support and resources,” Hanson
explains. In the 2022 Payment Security Report, it's pointed out how CISOs are
often using outdated methods to secure support, and a change is needed for all
stakeholders in approach. “Rather than taking a check-the-box approach to
compliance, CISOs and other security leaders need to take an out-of-the box,
thinker’s approach that involves implementing frameworks and models,” Hanson
says. “This is especially true for those taking the Customized approach to
compliance.” MacLeod says there are several key stakeholders in organizations
who ensure payment security compliance, from the CEO and CIO across to the CISO
and CFO -- and these roles are changing as the payments industry evolves.
... As a result, stakeholders such as the CIO and CISO are playing an
increasingly important role in ensuring payment security compliance.
Five defence-in-depth layers to implement for business security success
Businesses have many wonderful applications at their fingertips, with the
average user having access to 5-10+ high-value business apps. These contain
sensitive resources such as customer information, intellectual property, and
financial data, making them a key target for attackers. Unfortunately, 80 per
cent of businesses have faced users misusing or abusing these apps in the last
year. Simply requiring a login is not enough to keep them safe – the moment a
user steps away from their screen while still logged in, all of that valuable
data is exposed. The defensive layer: a login only verifies a user’s identity at
one point – so effective security controls here will continue to monitor,
record, and audit user actions after authentication. Enhancing the visibility
available to security teams offers many benefits, including being able to
identify the source of a security incident (and therefore respond) much quicker.
... Almost all businesses benefit from using third party tools, but they offer
risks too, as integration often requires creating super-user access to clients’
systems.
The future of IT: decentralization and collaboration
As the role of IT evolves and collaboration increases, IT leaders are
increasingly working as partners – rather than technology gatekeepers – with
department heads. This collaboration and decentralization of IT across the
enterprise gives employees self-sufficiency and autonomy when making
technology decisions for their departments. They no longer depend on the IT
team for their process automation, tool choices, or technology operations. ...
IT personnel must clarify to all employees which applications are allowed on
the corporate network. Employees should always inform IT personnel about their
use of non-sanctioned applications and devices. If employees are downloading
non-sanctioned apps and using non-sanctioned devices to access the corporate
network, the IT department may have trouble preventing malware from accessing
the network. When employees are open and honest about the devices and
applications they use, it is much easier for IT personnel to mitigate rogue
downloads and keep the network safe. Also, with social engineering efforts on
the rise, IT must teach all other employees about popular attack methods, such
as phishing and business email compromise.
Craftleadership: Craft Your Leadership as Developers Craft Code
There are other common practices in software development that apply to
management. First, organize your budgeting process as a CI/CD pipeline. Make
budget definition something that is easily repeatable, and that fits in your
organization. CI/CD allows you to get rid of fastidious tasks by putting them
in a pipeline. Budgeting is one of the most fastidious things I have found I
have to do as a manager. Second, master your tools. If MS Excel is the tool
used by the managers in your organization, be an Excel master. Third, try to
be reactive in your decisions, as in reactive programming. Be asynchronous
when making decisions; as much as possible, try to reduce the “commit” phase,
that is, the meetings where everyone must be present to say they agree. In my
case, I think that it is necessary to maintain these meetings where everybody
agrees on different things. Yet, in these meetings, I never address an issue
that I haven’t had the time to discuss thoroughly with everyone beforehand-
this could be through a simple asynchronous email loop where everyone had a
chance to give his or her opinion.
Quote for the day:
"Successful leadership requires
positive self-regard fused with optimism about a desired outcome." --
Warren Bennis
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