Cybersecurity Practice Area

Mitigate security threats against customers and the enterprise

Financial institutions and their customers are under constant attack as criminals attempt to compromise accounts, personally identifiable information and even intellectual property. FIs have their profitability and reputations at stake. Javelin helps financial institution clients devise effective strategies for securing data and systems in a constantly evolving threat environment.

RSA Conference: Innovation in a Sea of Booths

Javelin Report

April 15, 2019 By: Sean Sposito, Kyle Marchini, Al Pascual

This report spotlights several new and innovative vendors based on a select set of criteria. The firms had to have marketed themselves to financial services clients; be considered an early-stage company (no more than B-Series funding); offer an...

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Impact Note: The Small Bank Security Leadership Shortage

Javelin Report

March 14, 2019 By: Sean Sposito, Al Pascual

When questioned about their top priorities, security professionals inside small banks and credit unions often cite, protecting their retail banking clients. But when compared to their larger peers, they are generally less prepared to do so. At least...

2019 ATM Security: Taking a Holistic Approach to Protecting the Automated Teller Machine

Javelin Report

February 4, 2019 By: Sean Sposito, Al Pascual

This report will break down into two categories the risks that ATMs face: logical attacks that focus on the weaknesses embedded within the device’s software and operating systems, and physical ones that involve crooks breaking locks to cash...

2019 Cybersecurity Trends

Javelin Report

January 15, 2019 By: Sean Sposito, Al Pascual

Financial institutions are driving toward a future where there’s little difference between online and offline banking. In that world where the edge of a firm’s business is defined more by an omnichannel experience than just its brick-and-mortar...