Comprehensive Fraud Protection for Your Business

The industry mechanism for sharing data and intelligence and learning to fight economic crime.

Cifas’ Combined Threat Protect is the essential industry solution, providing the complete package of products, features, tools and services to protect your organisation, your staff and your customers from fraud and financial crime.

Many organisations make the mistake of thinking they are only vulnerable on certain fronts, focusing their resources and tools on countering specific threats to specific business areas. Yet the methods and channels that criminals use to target organisations are varied and changeable, and not restricted by sector, business type, department or person. By assuming only certain areas are a target, organisations leave other key avenues wide open to attack.

Combined Threat Protect is the only solution to consider, and cover, the economic crime threat from a variety of angles. It provides products, services and tools that are rooted in and developed from data, intelligence and learning – the three pillars of economic crime prevention – to ensure that every aspect of an organisation can be protected, from the inside out.

Why both? The co-dependency of external and insider threats.

Internal and external threats are linked. Threats that originate externally can exploit vulnerabilities in your internal systems to achieve their aims, and vice versa:

Employee theft and identity fraud
An employee uses their privileged access to personal customer information to steal it and sell it on the Dark Web. You see the external threat – identity fraud – but the source is your insider threat.

Account takeovers, APP fraud scams and staff approaches
Staff members recruited into handing over customer account data gives criminals the information they need to commit identity fraud, make false applications or payments and takeover legitimate accounts.

Is Combined Threat Protect right for you?

Why only Insider Threat Protect?
Organisations who don’t hold or share customer or client data would only need Insider Threat Protect. These organisations include screening and vetting companies, or areas focused on internal-only processes who are eligible to hold their own membership.

Why only External Threat Protect?
Most organisations would be disadvantaged by not taking Combined Threat Protect. Exceptions could include those whose recruitment and employee operations are outsourced, or where the Insider Threat Protect is held as a separate membership within the organisation.