Security risk

There are almost no vulnerabilities that aren't covered by some sort of intelligence or data, says Steven Rogers, president and CEO of Centripetal.

The short-term disruption is worth the benefits of improved security and user experience, writes IIya Dubinsky, head of the CTO office at Credorax.

It is human nature to do as little as possible when it comes to secure passwords. The new NIST standard helps solve that problem.

Given the risks of improperly securing a multicloud environment, it's crucial to engage with partners who understand networking, says Mounir Hahad, head of threat research for for Juniper Networks.

The growing sophistication of artificial intelligence is making fraud detection faster and more accurate, which opens up new possibilities for new products and services because of consumer confidence in secure payments, writes Margaret Reid, senior vice president of North America Risk for Visa.

Web-based key users can have secure access to an online management application from anywhere in the world and can change key access permissions, profiles, schedules and validity, even revoking their use virtually at the click of a button, writes Pip Courcoux, sales and product manager for CLIQ Systems at Abloy UK.

By allowing instant issuance to be executed from the most secure infrastructure available, PCI-CP introduces greater flexibility and protection than older standards, according to Ranjeet Khanna, vice president of financial issuance at Entrust Datacard.

When deploying connected devices, firms much balance the mix of innovation and security, writes Pip Courcoux, sales and product manager for CLIQ Systems at Abloy UK.

Before we can advertise the security benefits of digital wallets, we have to address their vulnerabilities, writes Jared McClure, co-founder and COO of CrayPay.

However, before we put all of our eggs in the blockchain basket, we need to examine whether the technology is ready to protect merchants from chargebacks and fraud, contends Suresh Dakshina, president of Chargeback Gurus.

Even as regulations are getting tougher, criminals are getting more sophisticated and creative, writes Ron Teicher, CEO of EverCompliant.

The days of odd emails are gone. Phishing has become a complex big business for crooks, according to Rafael Lourenco, an executive vice president at ClearSale.

Cybersecurity is about protecting the house, the corporation, the people, process, technology and the data, writes Harley Lippman, founder and CEO of Genesis10.

As machine learning generally benefits from lots of examples, by the time a model can be implemented to tackle the new threat, the threat has generally moved on, so frequent updates to models are necessary, writes Oliver Tearle, head of research at The ai Corporation

A data-driven approach, regardless of human or machine involvement, is a state that organizations need to move to in order to maximize detection in the present and to ease the transition to a more primarily machine-driven future, writes Oliver Tearle, head of research at The ai Corporation.

Payment crooks are behaving more like organized crime syndicates, and that's putting merchants, processors and banks on the defensive, argues Yossi Geller, a vice president at Paygilant.

By using the dark web as a cybersecurity tool, instead of an ungovernable threat, financial institutions can intercede and interdict compromised card data post-breach, pre-fraud, writes Ted Kirk, vice president of strategic partnerships for Advanced Fraud Solutions.

A security breach that left 24 million mortgage documents unprotected on a server is rekindling concerns about the risks posed by fourth parties.

E-commerce's opposite threats of cart abandonment and fraud create butting heads, but advanced authentication could give merchants a new way to manage both challenges.

Criminals are getting aggressive when using mobile apps to compromise consumer accounts, and that's causing headaches for execs who bear responsibility for data security.