CyberWire Daily - Encore: Pattie Dillon: Take the leap. [Anti-fraud] [Career Notes]

Episode Date: March 3, 2024

Product Manager in Anti-Fraud Solutions at SpyCloud, Pattie Dillon shares her journey from raising her family to specializing in the anti-fraud space. Upon reentering the workforce, Pattie worked on ...identity verification and developed a system with privacy concerns in mind. She moved to work in gift cards and was exposed to money laundering. Traveling along the fraud spectrum, Pattie learned about underground data and feels that this data can be leveraged to actually prevent and fight online fraud. Pattie believes if you don't try, you'll never know. We know we appreciate Pattie sharing her story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:02:26 But as my kids were growing up, I felt like I was really missing something. And so I went out and found a number of different careers that I enjoyed. But the one that was most interesting to me and I had the most passion for was preventing fraud. I've been doing this for, and it served a number of small to medium-sized businesses, and one of those businesses was an online tobacco business. So there's many different types of tobacco being sold online now, but at the time it was very limited and the individual wanted to look for some sort of age verification solution. I got into the data world and honestly was flabbergasted by how much information was out there and said, wow, if we're going to build this,
Starting point is 00:03:43 I'd really like to make sure that it's more privacy-oriented and people aren't required to put in the last four digits of their social or whatnot. Then, of course, now it's very standard not to have to use the last four digits of social for identity. Beyond that, we started working on identity verification, and one thing led to another and everything sort of exploded in terms of, in my mind, from a fraud perspective, you know, how much we could help to prevent. I left that company and started working with gift cards and then was exposed to learning about money laundering. That led me then to underground data, understanding that,
Starting point is 00:04:40 and then starting to work with SpyCloud on product development around that. And the product development started in the age verification piece of it and was in good stand all the way through my career. At SpyCloud, we're building products that are leveraging, in my opinion, one of the most robust and complete underground databases in the world. We're looking at different ways to use that data to try and help prevent fraud. Understanding that breaches and leaks are really at the core of this online fraud. of this online fraud.
Starting point is 00:05:28 It's really more about identifying the risk of that identity versus just looking at devices to try and solve for fraud. It's been my experience that it's sort of a misunderstood type of data. There's really two core assumptions hindering the use of underground data to fight online fraud. And first is that every user is equally exposed, which is not true. And second, that breach data is only valuable to criminals.
Starting point is 00:06:03 Again, not true. So the truth that I'd like to sort of impart that breach data is only valuable to criminals. Again, not true. So the truth that I'd like to sort of impart to the audience is that fraud prevention can benefit from that breached, exposed, underground data. It really does provide signals of the user's risk. It can help not only identify high risk, but it can also identify low risk. There weren't a lot of opportunities for me as a woman to take advantage of early on, so I sort of made my own. I guess the other pieces that I would like to change,
Starting point is 00:06:52 if at all possible, would be that as an anti-fraud professional, a lot of times in businesses, professional. A lot of times in businesses, the fraud division is a lot smaller than sort of like the business growth division. And that disparity can really overtax the people in that fraud division who are trying their hardest to make things right on one side. I believe that being able to share the stories and being able to share the things that have been successful in preventing and what the types of attacks were that are happening are so important. Everybody has this weakness. And the more that we can share with others of how we've remediated those weaknesses, share with others of how we've remediated those weaknesses,
Starting point is 00:08:09 the stronger that we're going to be in the fight against, you know, the cyber crimes and the fraud. Anybody that's looking to get into this type of industry or career, you know, you need to align with the mission. Also having a desire and a passion to prevent the fraudulent cyber attack kind of events and if you have that and read insatiably and network with people there's definitely an opportunity. I have always been a person who said if you don't, you'll never know. I did have a very good support system, and it made it much easier, certainly, than maybe somebody that wouldn't have had that support
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