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ARTICLE · 16 MARCH 2020

Preventing Crime Targeted At Financial Institutions With Analysis

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The use of analyzed OSINT data from blogs, forums and online communication channels can help analysts derive the sensitive, critical data that connects networks of accomplices involved in large-scale crime.

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Collaborative or single-handed ploys of criminals targeting Financial Institutions (FIs) is no longer an at-gun-point scenario, with most banks and insurance companies hosting a wide range of services and transactions online. Breaches of FIs online systems have supported the illicit activities of terrorists with various cases of money laundering, terror funding and theft stealthily executed online by key players based all over the world map. Analysts' need for technologies and solutions with Artificial Intelligence at their core have become critical to solving, predicting and preventing crime against FIs, with the machine and deep learning algorithms delivering the turnkey data that's analyzed from Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) and Cyber Related Information (CRI).

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