Closeup of Amazon's Echo, which uses the company's intelligent personal assistant, Alexa.

Customers can ask Amazon’s virtual assistant about account balances, spending habits and financial questions that they may be too embarrassed to ask a human.

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Gary McAlum, chief security officer at USAA.

USAA has granted development rights to some of its patented security technologies to Persistent Systems to create authentication and security-related products.

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