Average Theft Prevented Per Romance Scam: $12,000 Credentials represent one of the Four Pillars of Detection that the CQ Prime Research Team uses to help our customers understand and ultimately
Another Day, Another Data Breach
The bleeding of private data never seems to stop. This week, StockX announced that 6.8 million records were exposed. Last week it was CapitalOne announcing a significant data breach of over 100
Introducing CQ Prime–the Cequence Security Threat Research Team
I’d like to introduce you to CQ Prime, the Cequence Security threat research team whose singular mission is to help the security industry and our customers understand the Tactics, Techniques and
When does Comparison Shopping Become Malicious?
Comparison shopping is a proven and accepted practice within the retail industry. Pre-internet era versions meant shoppers would physically visit the retailers to get their “bottom line” price. Early
CQAI: Using Machine Learning to Determine Transactional Intent
When you consider normal online activities – such as email, messaging, social media, search, browse, etc. – there are plenty of tools available to determine if the transactional content is potentially
Fortune 500 Retailer Saves $1.7 Million by Eliminating Account Take Overs
The retail industry is commonly targeted by bad actors who use stolen credentials and automated bots to launch high volume account take over attacks that result in financial losses through theft and
AWS VPC Traffic Mirroring Integration Coming Soon
Back to work after the AWS re:Inforce conference in Boston and the July 4th weekend and I am super pumped about what I learned at AWS re:Inforce. Having attended a couple of AWS re:Invent conferences,
Implementing a Dynamic Sampling Strategy in Spark Streaming
We began using Apache Spark in 2015 as an integral component of our underlying data processing infrastructure. We chose to use it for the following reasons: It’s a single platform that allows us
Fake Account Creation: It’s Fraud by Any Other Name
Early use cases of fake account creation were to anonymously request info, avoid spam from an online merchant or participate anonymously in a conversation. Today, with so much of our lives managed
The Danger of Content Scraping – And How to Prevent It
Many of today’s hyper-connected organizations are faced with the challenge of how to address content scraping attacks in an efficient and scalable manner. The impact of this attack can be
Application Security – Solving the Hardest Problem First
Today we announced CQ appFirewall, the second security module for our Application Security Platform that leverages CQAI, our patented AI-powered analytics engine, to prevent data loss and compromise
What Sets Cequence Apart from Anyone Else
Cequence Security prevents business logic abuse with our AI-based Application Security Platform that discovers all of your public facing web, mobile and API-based applications, then detects any