TECHNOLOGY

Web Spiders are also known as Crawlers, Bots, Ants or Scutters and the process of web data extraction may also be referred to as Web Crawling, Web Scraping or Automatic Indexing.

Smart Cards are also known as Chip Cards, Integrated Circuit (IC) Cards and EMV cards while another implementation, Chip & PIN Cards, additionally require the cardholder to provide their personal identification number.

Secure Tokens are also known as Fobs, Hardware Tokens and RSA Tokens.

Biometrics - Fingerprint Scans, Retinal Scans, Voiceprints, DNA Matching, Facial Recognition, and more.

Device Identification is also known as Device ID, Device Authentication and Device Fingerprinting.

Digital Signatures are the digital equivalent of handwritten signatures, they provide merchants with the ability to authenticate a consumer and enhance evidence during repudiation disputes.

Geolocation services provide information about a consumer's worldwide location at the time of purchase based on their IP address, which can be compared against the billing and shipping address information they provided, as well as used in Velocity Checks.

Mobile Phone Geolocation provides the physical location of a customer's mobile phone so that it can be compared to the location information provided by the consumer.

Proxy Detection Services detect the use of anonymous proxies, which is not a direct indicator of fraud by itself, but when combined with other data elements can indicate an order is high risk.