The pace of life for the majority of Americans has dramatically changed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, driving more digital consumption, and unfortunately, increases in cybercrime. Crimes that target banking, credit, and consumer activities are commonplace in the best of times, but when people are in stressful financial and psychological situations, exploitation is [...]
Earlier this week, our team had the pleasure of participating in the Card Forum here in Austin, Texas. The three-day event headed up by publisher SourceMedia brought together over 600 professionals from the mobile payments, credit, marketing, risk and fraud industries. Session programming highlighted trends, challenges and innovation in card programs across financial services and [...]
In August 2016, Experian took another important step in the transformation of its Consumer Services business by acquiring CSID, an Austin, TX startup founded in 2006. The acquisition combines the power of Experian’s Consumer Services products with the proprietary technology and innovation of CSID’s identity protection platform, empowering our partners and paving the way for [...]
As part of the Experian family, we’re excited to participate in their #ExperianStories campaign with a story of our own. For more than 10 years, we’ve had the immense privilege of developing innovative solutions to help businesses and consumers address growing threats related to breach and identity theft. We started in 2006 with four founders [...]
Today, we’re pleased to announce that our Social Media Monitoring product now includes child-monitoring services. This important addition, which can be rapidly deployed and customized through our Identity Management Center (IMC), lets our partners enable subscribers to monitor privacy and reputational risks, cyber bullying, weapons references, and sexual predator activity for their child’s Facebook, Twitter, [...]
As a society, we are more mobile than ever before. Between meetings and after-work commitments, social gatherings and kids’ play dates, we are using mobile apps to communicate with friends and family, field emails, stay up to date with the latest news, and so much more. In fact, mobile app usage has increased 90 percent [...]
Most of our waking hours are spent in an office setting – behind a desk, in front of a screen, surrounded by our co-workers, managers, and customers. While the hardware from company to company doesn’t change drastically, the culture of each workplace does. Today, when prospective employees consider a career with a company, they examine [...]
Experian started in 2006 with four founders. We now have more than 180 employees, offices in four different locations around the globe, and our products and services are being offered in multiple languages on multiple continents. As I look back on the past 10 years, there are two principles we’ve put front and center at [...]
Cyber criminals are targeting attacks towards small businesses more than ever before. In fact, Symantec reported over 43% of spear phishing attacks and 60% of all attacks in 2014 were directed towards small and midsize companies in its 2015 Internet Security Threat Report. To combat this growing trend, we’re excited to today announce the launch [...]
When I co-founded Experian 10 years ago, data breaches were a growing concern. According to the Identity Theft Resource Center, there were 157 reported breaches in 2005. In 2015, there were 783 – a 398 percent increase in a ten-year period. We’ve seen a number of high profile breaches dominate media headlines – breaches that [...]
