Alisdair Faulkner of ThreatMetrix says financial institutions and businesses should focus on five key security areas. What make up the top five, and where do banks need to make the greatest fraud-prevention investments?

Organizations that have experienced a breach report that three lessons they learned were to limit the amount of personal information collected, limit sharing data with third parties and limit the amount of data stored, a new survey shows.

Risk assessments are over. Now it's time for institutions to prove they conform to the FFIEC's Authentication Guidance. Fraud expert George Tubin offers tips to prepare for the first regulatory exam.

Losses linked to debit fraud now exceed losses connected to check fraud, according to a new survey by the American Bankers Association. How are banks responding to the threat?

Online security starts with e-mail monitoring. BITS and FS-ISAC have partnered to launch a new registry service that aims to thwart phishing attacks.

You know your company's social media policy is a good one when it starts sounding less like a checklist and more like common sense, says Sherrie Madia, social media expert and author.

Does the U.S. government's shuttering of the file-sharing website Megaupload.com show that new laws are not needed to battle intellectual property piracy? Brookings's Allan Friedman believes it does.

The Europay, MasterCard, Visa standard, commonly used in most global markets, is coming to the U.S. The sooner issuers, acquirers and merchants initiate migrations, the better, says Stephanie Ericksen, head of authentication product integration at Visa.

The recent breach that affected 24 million customers of Internet retailer Zappos.com should lead others to consider how much client information to store, says cybersecurity expert Fred H. Cate.

Zappos was quick to communicate after discovering a data breach impacting 24 million customers. But did the online retailer respond appropriately, or make some missteps in its haste to notify? Francoise Gilbert of the IT Law Group gives a mixed review.