Guardian Analytics

Guardian Analytics is an American privately held company headquartered in Mountain View, California which provides behavioral analytics and machine learning technology for preventing banking fraud. It was established in 2005[1] and its products are based on anomaly detection to monitor financial transactions.[2] In 2012, Guardian Analytics together with McAfee dissected the US$78 million cyber attack titled Operation High Roller.[3] In 2013 Guardian Analytics was listed among the Top 10 Influencers in banking information security.[4] As of September 2016, nearly 430 financial institutions are using Guardian Analytics products to mitigate fraud risk and rely on the company to stop sophisticated criminal attacks. Contents 1 Services 1.1 FraudDESK 1.2 See also 2 References 3 External links Services[edit] Guardian Analytics offers fraud prevention services for financial institutions. The general architecture includes two main components. The first component, the risk engine, merges analytics and behavior-based models of a user to create a probabilistic profile of each individual. By recognizing anomalous behavior, it is possible to identify fraudulent activity before loss occurs. The risk engine dynamically adapts to user behavior to be able to detect new fraud attacks. The second component is Visual Analytics, a data browser used by financial institutions to monitor, investigate, and resolve potential fraud by accessing collected data. This visual interface shows risk scores and the underlying contextual information to facilitate analysis and investigation.[5] Guardian Analytics is able to detect fraudulent activities such as account takeover, account reconnaissance and fraudulent wire, ACH, and bill pay transactions. Guardian Analytics is not specific to the type of threat and can protect against cyber attacks such as phishing, vishing and Man in the Browser. The software is transparent to account holders and does not require any action on their side.[6] Guardian Analytics markets several services, targeting particular types of financial interactions: Guardian Analytics Online[7] (for retail [8] and business [9]) Guardian Analytics Mobile [10] Guardian Analytics ACH (for ODFIs & RDFIs) [11] Guardian Analytics ACH Real-time (for ODFIs & RDFIs) Guardian Analytics Wire[12] Guardian Analytics Wire Real-time Guardian Analytics Access[13] Guardian Analytics is marketed as software as a service and can be deployed in the company's SAS 70 Type II certified environment.[14]