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AI-powered fraud detection: Protecting financial services with Elastic

Fraud in financial services is becoming more sophisticated, costing the industry billions annually and eroding customer trust. Recently, Deloitte published an article highlighting the risk AI brings in the form of fraudsters to the financial services industry: “Fake content has never been easier to create — or harder to catch. As threats grow, banks can invest in AI and other technologies to help detect fraud and prevent losses.”

5 AI Scams You Need To Be Aware Of In 2025

AI is revolutionizing our lives in terms of productivity, automation, customer service, and more. AI is becoming so important that organizations increased spending on compute and storage hardware infrastructure for AI deployments by 37% year-over-year in the first half of 2024, reaching $31.8 billion. However, like most technological advances, the good often comes with the bad.

How AI Can Crack Your Passwords

As AI becomes more advanced, it's important to consider all the ways AI can be used maliciously by cybercriminals, especially when it comes to cracking passwords. Cybercriminals can use AI to perform 3 different types of password-cracking attacks: acoustic side-channel, brute force and dictionary attacks. Learn more about these AI-powered password-cracking attacks.

AI-Powered Attacks Surge: 1,025% Jump in Vulnerabilities, 99% are API related

Wallarm's 2025 API ThreatStats Report offers a sweeping look at how AI deployments drive a surge in security risks. In 2024, Wallarm researchers discovered 439 AI-related CVEs-up an astonishing 1,025% from the prior year. Nearly all these flaws, 99%, point back to insecure or mismanaged APIs.

Instant Insights for SOC 2 Reporting: Using AI to Streamline Vendor Assessments

With technology supply chain risks at an all-time high, many governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) teams conduct formal risk assessments as part of their new vendor selection and onboarding processes. Audit-based reporting frameworks like SOC 2 are invaluable to these efforts, as they provide a consistent way to benchmark prospective vendors’ customer data management practices.

How Protecto Safeguards Sensitive Data in AI Applications

Discover how to build secure, compliant, and privacy-preserving AI applications with Protecto. In this video, we explain how Protecto's simple APIs protect sensitive data, ensuring compliance with regulations like HIPAA. Learn how a healthcare company used Protecto to create an AI-based fraud detection application while safeguarding millions of patient health insurance claims. Protecto's API masks sensitive information, preserving context and meaning without exposing personal identifiers like names or social security numbers.

From Alerts to Action: How AI Empowers SOC Analysts to Make Better Decisions

Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts have it rough. Modern security tools generate an extraordinary number of alerts, attackers are more sophisticated than ever, and IT infrastructures are unprecedentedly complex. As a result, analysts are overwhelmed with workload and alerts, making it near-impossible to make intelligent, informed decisions. Fortunately, artificial intelligence (AI) is helping to ease the strain. Let’s look at how.