{"id":4610,"date":"2013-07-03T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T14:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/online-identity-theft-still-a-threat\/"},"modified":"2013-07-03T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T14:40:00","slug":"online-identity-theft-still-a-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/insights\/online-identity-theft-still-a-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Online Identity Theft Still a Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whether its because businesses are getting smarter or<br \/>\nconsumers are getting more particular, online business are starting to make<br \/>\nonline security a priority. Users are<br \/>\nnow getting used to (and embracing) some of the extra precautions implemented<br \/>\nto help <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/solutions\/\" style=\"cursor: text;\">reduce<br \/>\nonline fraud<\/a>. From creating accounts to the standard security questions,<br \/>\nthese security tactics are no longer foreign to users. But even though security<br \/>\nis becoming more common, so is fraud. While security always tends to be a few<br \/>\nsteps behind technology and hackers, companies need to remember to constantly<br \/>\nreevaluate and improve their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/solutions\/identifraud\/\" style=\"cursor: text;\">fraud<br \/>\nprevention strategy<\/a> because its not a one-time solution. And just like the<br \/>\nsaying goes, even if youre on the right track youll still get run over if<br \/>\nyou just sit there &#8211; fraud prevention<br \/>\nis no different.<br class=\"k-br\"><\/p>\n<p><!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p>Companies and users may think they are safe based on<br \/>\ncurrent security measures but people and businesses are still experiencing<br \/>\nissues with identity theft and fraud. Just this week the largest national<br \/>\nidentity theft ring was shut down and the suspects are expected to be on<br \/>\ntrial soon. This should serve as a fair warning to companies in the US and all<br \/>\nover the world that online fraud prevention is a dynamic solution and should be<br \/>\nchanging as the world changes. And while there are plenty of blogs and best<br \/>\npractices available to give tips on how to protect yourself online, the bottom<br \/>\nline is that the solution is going to be different for every company. So while<br \/>\nthese best practices serve as a guideline to preventing fraud, its important<br \/>\nto consult with your internal team and outside security companies to find a<br \/>\nmore catered solution.<br class=\"k-br\"><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"k-br\"><\/p>\n<p>[Contributed by EVS Marketing]<br class=\"k-br\"><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether its because businesses are getting smarter or consumers are getting more particular, online business are starting to make online security a priority. Users are now getting used to (and embracing) some of the extra precautions implemented to help reduce<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-identity-theft"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}