Guardian Analytics
Technology company
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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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| Company type | Private |
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| Founded | 2005 |
| Headquarters | , U.S. |
Key people | Eric Tran-Le, GM |
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| Website | www |
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]