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Device Identification valuable for businesses on the web, Gartner says

Posted on February 9th, 2009 by Alisdair Faulkner

In a recent Silicon Business Valley Business Journal profiling ThreatMetrix, “ThreatMetrix fights cyberfraud at the ‘front door’”, Gartner Vice President Avivah Litan, an analyst covering authentication, identity theft, fraud detection and prevention applications said

There’s a lot of value in these types of applications in financial services, e-commerce, online dating sites, gaming sites, health care and government portals, anyone that does business on the internet

The article does a good job of describing ThreatMetrix ability to profile a device in real-time to help stop fraud at the front gate by simply using ThreatMetrix HTML tags on check-out pages, user registration and login pages.

Every business that has a presence on the web and has users logging into their web site could benefit from their offering.

New Device Identification Whitepaper Released

Posted on February 5th, 2009 by Alisdair Faulkner

Table of Contents is shown below. If you are interested in learning more, please request a free copy.

ThreatMetrix Whitepaper Device Identification TOC

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Device Intelligence Identity | Risk | Reputation Device Identification Technology Whitepaper Alisdair Faulkner VP Products Device Intelligence Table of Contents Online Identity Verification – is it a customer or fraudster? …………………………………………..3 Device Identification and Fraud Prevention ………………………………………………………………….3 Device Identification Requirements……………………………………………………………………………..4 Device Identification and Fraud Prevention ………………………………………………………………….4 Device Identification Trade-Offs ………………………………………………………………………………….5 Device Identification Approaches………………………………………………………………………………..6 Device Tagging as a Device Identification Strategy ………………………………………………………6 Advantages of Device Tagging……………………………………………………………………………….6 Disadvantages of Device Tagging …………………………………………………………………………..6 Device Fingerprint Hashing as a Device Identification Strategy …………………………………….7 Advantages of Device Fingerprint Hashing……………………………………………………………….7 Disadvantages of Device Fingerprint Hashing …………………………………………………………..7 Introducing ThreatMetrix Adaptive Device Identification……………………………………………….8 A Robust and Comprehensive Approach………………………………………………………………….8 Advantages of Adaptive Device Identification ……………………………………………………………9 Conclusion ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………10 ThreatMetrix Device Intelligence FAQ ………………………………………………………………………..11 2 of 18