Alisdair Faulkner

Chief Products Officer, ThreatMetrix

Faulkner is a technology entrepreneur who has nearly two decades of experience building products and delivering mission-critical technologies that are run by the world's most trusted brands. Faulkner is a noted industry expert in issues relating to online fraud, cybercrime, identity theft, information security and networking technology. As chief products officer and co-founder at ThreatMetrix, he is responsible for product management and strategy. Prior to ThreatMetrix, Faulkner was a founder and head of products and business development for NetPriva, a leading network performance software provider, acquired by Expand Networks, now Riverbed. Prior to NetPriva, he was a senior consultant at Accenture in their e-commerce practice.

Account Takeover, Payment Fraud and Spoofed Identities: The Common Thread

Presented by Alisdair Faulkner • November 4, 2014

Preventing online fraud and cybercrime requires repeated analysis of trends and data to identify emerging attack vectors. Reviewing fraud attacks and breaches only after an incident happens keeps you a step or more behind the cybercriminals. This webinar describes solutions that can be used proactively to help prevent...

Visualization of Big Data Analytics

Presented by Alisdair Faulkner • October 14, 2014

Traditionally, big data, analytics and visualization tools have been used after the fact to analyze fraud and security breaches. In this session, we will demonstrate the proactive use of these technologies to help prevent these attacks from occurring in the first place. Leveraging findings from massive scale,...

Creating Actionable Intelligence and the Visualization of Big Data Analytics

Presented by Alisdair Faulkner , Marco Morana • October 7, 2014

Part1: Creating Actionable Intelligence, the Advances in Threat Information Exchange Collecting security- and fraud-related data from multiple sources can often just result in creating a very large pool of unrelated facts. But begin to add context to that data and you now have information. Triangulate multiple pieces...

The Fraud Dilemma: How to Prioritize Anti-Fraud Investments

Presented by Alisdair Faulkner , George Tubin • February 20, 2012

Device identification. Anomaly detection. Transaction verification. When it comes to fraud prevention, there are nearly as many options as there are threats. So, how do you best prioritize your own investments in anti-fraud solutions? Join this panel of experts, led by financial fraud expert George Tubin, as they...

FFIEC Guidance: How to Use Layered Security to Fight Fraud

Presented by Mark Benoit , Alisdair Faulkner , Michael Smith , Matthew M. Speare • September 6, 2011

Layered security is one of the core tenets of the new FFIEC Authentication Guidance - and it's perhaps the most effective strategy for detecting and preventing banking fraud schemes. But what are some of today's most mature approaches to layered security, and how are banking institutions employing them to detect and...