Join Craig Jeffery of Strategic Treasurer and Tad Fordyce of Comdata for a webinar on how virtualization functionally works to streamline the payments process, allowing your finance group to scale and adapt in a highly flexible manner.
Join Craig Jeffery of Strategic Treasurer and Jackie Sharpnack of Comdata for a webinar on the current fraud situation, what payment platforms are doing to secure the various endpoints, and options for companies to reduce the surface area of attack on their own.
We’ve seen plenty of bad news about fraud. Scams are coming faster, more of them are succeeding, and companies’ losses are mounting. Many organizations are under-protected and insufficiently prepared. The data and analysis showing these facts are well-documented. Fearmongering, however, isn’t our goal.
In the final quarter of 2018, the average payoff amount for retrieving files encrypted in ransomware attacks was holding steady around $10,000. Early in 2019, the number began to rise, and only six months later it had quadrupled at $40,000. In 2019’s final quarter, the average amount was $84,116, and as if to warn that this number wasn’t going to drop anytime soon, the month of December saw the average rise to an unprecedented and shocking $190,000.
Host Craig Jeffery joins Chris Gerda, Risk and Fraud Prevention Officer of Bottomline Technologies to discuss the results and strategies from the 2020 Treasury Fraud & Controls Survey. Topics of discussion center corporate fraud concerns, security spend, hacking tactics, criminal innovation and more key findings.