A Smarter Way to Evaluate Your Fraud Stack
Spec vs. Traditional Fraud Tools
Fraud has evolved, and so have the tools to detect it.
Today's threats are fragmented, fast-moving, and increasingly invisible to traditional tools. Fraudsters don’t just act. They observe, pivot, and blend in across sessions, devices, and channels.
But if you’re in the process of reviewing vendors or pressure-testing your current stack, you don’t need hype. You need clarity.
That’s why we created the Spec Evaluation Playbook for Fraud & Risk Leaders - a practical teardown of what modern platforms should offer, and how to spot the gaps that legacy tools miss.
What’s inside:
Each page of the guide walks through a key capability to evaluate.
- Customer journey visibility: Can you see behavior before login?
- User linking & session tracking: Can you tie together activity even when attackers rotate IPs, emails, or devices?
- Behavioral pattern detection: Do you detect fraud chains or just score isolated events?
- Honeypotting: Are you blocking early and going blind, or learning from what attackers do next?
- Transparent data & decisions: Is your detection powered by unified, high-fidelity signals?
- Investigation efficiency: Can your team understand what happened in real time?
- Business outcomes: Does the platform reduce risk and improve conversion?
There’s also a checklist you can share with fraud ops, product, or platform teams to align on priorities during your vendor evaluation.
Grab the Playbook
Use this guide to audit your current stack, compare options, and make sure you’re not leaving visibility - and revenue - on the table.
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Be'Anka Ashaolu is the Senior Marketing Manager at Spec, the leading customer journey security platform leveraging 14x more data to uncover fraud that others miss. With over a decade of experience driving growth for B2B SaaS companies, she has built a reputation for developing high-impact strategies that fuel demand and elevate brand visibility. Be'Anka earned her degree with honors from Saint Mary’s College of California, majoring in Communications with a minor in English.
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