Guardian Analytics

Last updated
Nice Actimize (Formerly Guardian Analytics)
Company type Private
Founded2005
Headquarters
Mountain View, California
,
U.S.
Key people
Eric Tran-Le, GM
Products
  • Online Banking Security
  • Real-time Payment Fraud Protection
Website www.guardiananalytics.com

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]

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The company was acquired by Nice Actimize acquired August 2020. [3]

History

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

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

FraudDESK is a fraud monitoring managed service. [11]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Guardian Analytics Inc - Company Profile and News". Bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on 2023-07-10. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  2. ↑ "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.
  3. ↑ "NICE Actimize agrees acquisition of Guardian Analytics". www.fintechfutures.com. Retrieved 2025-07-11.
  4. ↑ "Start-up Guardian Analytics debuts fraud-prevention service". Network World. Retrieved 2025-07-11.
  5. ↑ 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.
  6. ↑ "Top 10 Influencers in Financial InfoSec". www.bankinfosecurity.com. Archived from the original on 2020-10-21. Retrieved 2021-03-08.
  7. ↑ "NICE Actimize acquires Guardian Analytics". Help Net Security. 2020-06-08. Archived from the original on 2020-09-26. Retrieved 2020-09-09.
  8. ↑ "Officials: Data breach affects 150,000 Webster Bank customers in CT". Archived from the original on 2023-04-25. Retrieved 2023-04-25.
  9. ↑ "Mosaic Security Research: "FraudMAP Software as a Service"". Archived from the original on 2013-12-05. Retrieved 2013-02-24.
  10. ↑ "Security Week: "Guardian Analytics Launches Managed Fraud Monitoring Service", July 13 2011". Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-07-16.
  11. ↑ "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.
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