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Today’s digital fraud targets both systems and people – the future of prevention demands protection across the entire attack surface.
We are living in a new kind of digital fraud scenario. Where the attack surface isn’t just technical – it’s also emotional.
This is one of the most important changes outbreak has been at the forefront of fraud prevention throughout its 20-plus year history.
We are in a perfect storm of fraud and scams. The rewards are high, the tools are readily available, and the use of AI has made attacks faster and more reliable than ever before. Criminal networks are becoming mature, coordinated and increasingly professional.
Scams have changed the digital fraud landscape
Through its work with financial institutions in more than 50 countries, OutSeer has seen how manipulation has become industrialized. The primary vulnerability is no longer the system but the person using it.
But traditional methods of committing digital fraud have not gone anywhere. Outsea continues to protect more than $5 trillion in transactions each year, helping prevent identity fraud, protect accounts, and monitor payments of all types.
Together, this creates a new, combined threat perimeter, where authorized and unauthorized fraud now overlap.
What is compound attack surface?
OutSeer defines this extended perimeter as a “compound attack surface”, where both technology and human behavior are exploited by fraudsters:
- The technical attack surface covers threats such as stolen credentials, malware, account takeover, and payment fraud.
- Emotional attack surface includes human manipulation including romance scams, investment fraud and money-mule recruitment.
Authorized fraud does not replace unauthorized fraud, but rather enhances it. Together, they create a dynamic, expanding threat surface that grows faster than the banks.
Why is this so challenging for financial institutions?
FIs and fraudsters operate in completely different worlds. The outsider’s vantage point reveals a clear imbalance in both threat monitoring and fraud prevention operations. Fraudsters can adapt freely without regard to the law, while financial institutions must innovate carefully and within a strict regulatory framework. This disparity keeps attackers several steps ahead.
Fraud is a business for criminals. They spend all their time and energy refining strategies, sharing playbooks on dark web forums, testing new tools, and learning from each failure. Every mistake is cheap; Every success is beneficial.
For FIs, fraud management is one of many functions. It competes for budget, headcount, and attention within highly regulated organizations. Teams must navigate stringent frameworks – PSD2, GDPR, AML, KYC, SCA – all designed to protect customers, but which also limit agility. Systems are often legacy, disjointed and regionalised, and coordination between fraud, risk, compliance and technology teams can be challenging.
The complexity of banks’ systems means that even as they strengthen individual security, they may still miss how different risk checks interact. Preventing one type of fraud is not enough. The goal now is to understand how all the risks overlap, and how decisions in one area affect the risks in another area.
Outseer helps financial institutions see layers of risk by connecting signals that are often fragmented between systems and teams. We help close the visibility gap that fraudsters take advantage of.
what is at stake?
The consequences extend far beyond financial losses for financial institutions. Each successful scam erodes customer trust and confidence in digital banking. Stolen dollars fuel organized crime, strengthening networks that thrive on exploitation and human trafficking. For victims, the impact is deeply personal – confusion, fear and financial insecurity that can impact lives.
In OutSeer, this is what gives us energy. We are in a fight to maintain trust, protect dignity and stop criminal enterprises from making profits at the expense of real people.
Leading the next era of fraud prevention
Outsear is perfectly meeting the urgency of this new challenge. We are applying our rich heritage of proven science and trusted technology from our RSA roots and combining it with new innovation to protect the full attack perimeter.
Our approach is focused on all-cause fraud prevention: addressing the full spectrum of authorized and unauthorized threats through a single, integrated framework.
We take a defense in depth approach that starts with real-time signals like behavioral biometrics, detecting subtle signs of coercion or compromise before money is transacted.
At the core is Outseer’s Risk Engine, powered by predictive AI and decades of learning from real fraud cases. It combines digital and human signals into one model for faster, more reliable results.
Each component works together through seamless integration, generating transparent risk scores that give institutions confidence in every decision.
Payoff: All-Cause Fraud Prevention
At OutSeer, our innovations are designed to deliver the most important thing in fraud prevention: accuracy in every decision. This means reduced losses from fraud, reduced friction between customers, more revenue and streamlined operations.
We help FIs protect the entire hybrid attack surface, technical and emotional, through a single, intelligent platform. This integrated approach closes the agility gap that can be exploited by attackers.
To know more, visit www.outseer.com,