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How to prevent your fraud defenses from leaking data to adversarial AI models
Each day, the Spec platform stops millions of attacks that could otherwise bypass fraud defenses by leveraging signals harvested for the use of adversarial AI models. Our platform deploys solutions to blind and mislead the AI in order to protect merchants, marketplaces, and their users from being defrauded. We put together a quick primer about the ways we’re seeing cybercriminals use artificial intelligence to bypass traditional fraud defense technology.

Fraudology: a field guide to working with other teams within your organization with Nate Kharrl
Often, leaders of fraud departments will say something to the effect of “My biggest adversaries aren’t the bad actors trying to commit fraud against our organization; they’re within my company and work within other departments that will often sabotage us or not understand our roles, which can lead to more problems than account or payment fraud does.”

Fraud Boxer podcast: low-code and no-code featuring Patrick Chen
In this episode, Patrick Chen, COO and co-founder of Spec, breaks down what low-code and no-code actually mean and how they work. Jordan Harris does his best to get an ELI5 (explain like I am 5) description of why this is something that very well could change our entire industry and how we approach the using and changing of our fraud prevention tools. Listen to the episode to learn more!

Why we fight fraud at the edge of the internet
Reimagine fraud defenses: detect & combat fraud at the edge, empowering fraud fighters to take action directly from the Spec Platform.We do things differently at Spec, and there’s a good reason why. My co-founder Patrick Chen and I spent the better part of our careers working with fraud defense teams at some of the largest brands in the world, this gave us great perspective on what isn’t working. While there are breakthroughs in fraud detection technologies every year, we know that the difference between good fraud defense and great fraud defense is driven primarily by where fraud is fought, not how.