Fraud Engineering: Implementing a Cross-Functional Risk Strategy
Presentation Technical Level
Intermediate - The next step beyond the basics. For attendees with some industry experience.
Summary of Topic
Fraud is an interdisciplinary attack that targets multiple points in the organization. Fraud Engineering counters this by taking the best practices from engineering, operations and quality assurance to fright fraud and reduce risk. By using these techniques one gains visibility into attacks, and using these insights to build systems to reduce fraud. Additionally this presentation covers how to leverage various groups in the organization to more effectively detect and respond to attacks. This is a technical talk providing samples of these systems in action.
Submitters
Nick Galbreath, Etsy
Presenters
Nick Galbreath, Etsy
Title
Director of Engineering
Presenter Biography
Nick Galbreath is a director of engineering at Etsy, overseeing groups handling fraud, security, authentication and internal tools. Over the last 18 years, Nick has held leadership positions in number of social and e-commerce companies, including Right Media, UPromise, Friendster, and Open Market, and has consulted for many more. He is the author "Cryptography for Internet and Database Applications" (Wiley), and was awarded a number of patents in the area of social networking. He holds a master's degree in mathematics from Boston University.