2012 MRC Annual eCommerce Payments and Risk Conference
March 27–29, 2012
Las Vegas, NV
Protecting Mobile: How to Beat the Bad Guys
Target Audience
Fraud prevention executives and managers
Presentation Technical Level
Intermediate - The next step beyond the basics. For attendees with some industry experience.
Summary of Topic
Mobile is the new battleground. While the vast proliferation of mobile devices makes it more difficult for cybercrime to effectively target mobile, it also makes mobile more difficult to protect. Already a variety of pernicious malware strains are actively targeting mobile, and the trendline is expected to rapidly escalate. The good news is that there are a variety of mitigation techniques that can be effectively brought to bear against the threat. This presentation will be based on recent Aite Group research, surveying multiple stakeholders in the financial services and ecommerce communities regarding mobile threats and successful mobile fraud mitigation techniques.
Audience Takeaway
The audience will come away from the session with an understanding of the threat environment, and a game plan for effectively mitigating the mobile threat with minimal disruption of the end user experience.
Submitters
Presenters
Ms. Julie Conroy McNelley, Aite Group
Title
Research Director
Presenter Biography
Julie Conroy McNelley is a Research Director at Aite Group, covering fraud and risk management. Ms. McNelley brings to Aite Group more than a decade of hands-on product management experience working with issuers, payments processors, and risk management companies. She managed the product group at Early Warning Services for a number of years. where she was responsible for a suite of fraud prevention services that provided clients with more than US$1 billion per year in loss avoidance. She has been quoted in numerous media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, U.S News and World Report, American Banker, and NPR.