Posted by Paul Paetz on Mon, Aug 31, 2009
The Global Fraud Alliance is more than members pooling data to create the world's most formidable force against fraud. It is also a community of like-minded merchants, sharing insights, news, stories and experiences.
Over the past year, Ethoca has rolled out a number of social media tools to help members stay abreast of what's going on, communicate with the community, engage in conversation over some of the key issues affecting us all, and receive alerts on breaking news. This blog is one of those tools, but we want to ensure you know about all of them and are able to choose the update methods that work best for you. Read on to learn more about the other community tools available.
Twitter
If you're already on Twitter, then no explanation necessary. Just click this button and start following Ethoca. If you're reading this blog on the web (vs in an email or newsreader), then you'll see that we also have the most recent tweets in the blog sidebar, and a button immediately below them that you can click to follow.
You may find this the easiest way to stay in touch with the community if you are interested in being kept abreast of all updates, since Ethoca broadcasts all blog posts, press releases, videos or other Ethoca or community news as it happens from Twitter. We will also use Twitter to broadcast any topical news, including external articles of interest, quick opinions, and anything that has urgent relevancy to the whole community. You can also use hashtags (e.g. #fraudalliance) to post your own messages of interest to the whole community, or create your own tags for subjects of interest to you.
If you haven't started Tweeting yet, or following anyone, it's easy to do. Just go to Twitter, and sign up for an account. You can either come back here and push the button to start following us, or search for the username andreedelbrock, and click the follow button inside Twitter.
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finextra.com, an independent news site and for the financial technology community. Finextra covers all significant technology news in wholesale and retail banking, the capital markets and insurance. Andre's blog is focused on issues of concern to that community, such as payments, credit card, financial fraud, and risk and responses to articles and other commentary on this site.
Want to hear the stories of other members and the unique problems they had to solve? Want to tell your own story to the community? This is the place to see and be seen. There are already some very compelling video clips posted, and we hope you'll want to share yours too.
If you want to get your community video on the Global Fraud Alliance channel, send a note to Ethoca at community@ethoca.com and we'll get in touch to help you record and post it.
Posted by Andre Edelbrock on Tue, Aug 25, 2009
It's not often we have an opportunity to "brag on" our board members, but today it's a personal privilege for me to do just that. First Secretary of Homeland Security and Ethoca director, Governor Tom Ridge, has completed his long awaited book "The Test of Our Times: America Under Siege and How We Can Be Safe Again". Scheduled for release on September 1, it promises to a super bestseller.
The book is Secretary Ridge’s account of his up-close and personal journey immediately following the attacks of September 11, 2001 – through his days as White House Homeland Security Director – his leadership of the Department of Homeland Security – and his experiences following that historic endeavor. He praises the unsung heroes of that journey, lays out the challenges and the victories along the way and offers his views on how we can achieve a better, safer world.
Tom is one of those rare men who truly deserves the accolade "American hero," although he also is a man of genuine humility who would be first to pass that mantle on to others he feels more deserving of recognition. He brings a unique perspective to our board, both as an accomplished businessman in his own right, and as a pre-eminent authority in the global threats of terrorism, cybercrime and financial fraud, and the connections between them.
We know his book will prove a riveting fireside read, and a popular first telling of the history of 9/11, and we wish him the best of success in his upcoming launch. And, we promise we'll be among the first to offer a review in the days following the book's release.
Online Retail Fraud Risk Insights from Secretary Ridge
Read what Secretary Ridge had to say about managing online retail fraud risk in an era of globalization, East European cybercrime gangs, and unparalleled data security breaches.
Download a copy of his keynote address to the 2009 Merchant Risk Council conference.