Guardian Analytics
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| Company type | Private |
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| Founded | 2005 |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Key people | Eric Tran-Le, GM |
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| Website | www |
Guardian Analytics, based in Mountain View, California, is a privately held company which provides behavioral analytics and machine learning technology for preventing banking fraud. It was established in 2005[1] and its products are based on anomaly detection to monitor financial transactions.[2]
The company was acquired by Nice Actimize acquired August 2020.[3]
History
[edit]Guardian Analytics was founded in 2005 by Tom Miltonberger.[4]
In 2012, Guardian Analytics, together with McAfee, dissected the US$78 million cyber attack titled Operation High Roller.[5]
In 2013, Guardian Analytics was listed among the Top 10 Influencers in banking information security.[6]
In June 2020, NICE Ltd. announced the acquisition of Guardian Analytics.[7]
Between November 2022 and January 2023, Guardian Analytics was the victim of a data breach, which impacted approximately 150,000 Webster Bank customers who had sensitive personal information, including bank account and social security numbers, compromised. [8]
Services
[edit]Guardian Analytics offers fraud prevention services for financial institutions. The general architecture includes two main components. The first component, the risk engine, merges analytics and behavior-based models of a user to create a probabilistic profile of each individual. Guardian Analytics is marketed as software as a service and can be deployed in the company's SAS 70 Type II certified environment.[9]
The software is transparent to account holders and does not require any action on their side.[10]
FraudDESK
[edit]FraudDESK is a fraud monitoring managed service.[11]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Guardian Analytics Inc - Company Profile and News". Bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on 2023-07-10. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
- ^ "Mobile Banking Week: "Guardian Analytics Introduces New Anomaly Detection Solution to Protect Mobile Banking Channel"". Archived from the original on 2013-05-04. Retrieved 2013-02-11.
- ^ "NICE Actimize agrees acquisition of Guardian Analytics". www.fintechfutures.com. Retrieved 2025-07-11.
- ^ "Start-up Guardian Analytics debuts fraud-prevention service". Network World. Retrieved 2025-07-11.
- ^ KingReporter, Rachael (2012-06-27). "Operation High Roller Targets Corporate Bank Accounts". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Archived from the original on 2021-01-18. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
- ^ "Top 10 Influencers in Financial InfoSec". www.bankinfosecurity.com. Archived from the original on 2020-10-21. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
- ^ "NICE Actimize acquires Guardian Analytics". Help Net Security. 2020-06-08. Archived from the original on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
- ^ "Officials: Data breach affects 150,000 Webster Bank customers in CT". Archived from the original on 2023-04-25. Retrieved 2023-04-25.
- ^ "Mosaic Security Research: "FraudMAP Software as a Service"". Archived from the original on 2013-12-05. Retrieved 2013-02-24.
- ^ "Security Week: "Guardian Analytics Launches Managed Fraud Monitoring Service", July 13 2011". Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
- ^ "PRN News: "Guardian Analytics Introduces Industry's First Fraud Monitoring Managed Service"" (Press release). Archived from the original on 2013-12-03. Retrieved 2013-07-16.