Avivah Litan

VP and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner Research

Litan is a vice president and distinguished analyst at Gartner Research. Her areas of expertise include endpoint security, security analytics for cybersecurity and fraud, user and entity behavioral analytics, insider threats, fraud detection, and prevention and identity proofing.

Blockchain and Fraud Prevention: Business and Technical Factors to Make it Scale

Presented by Avivah Litan , Shira Rubinoff • July 13, 2018

Financial fraud can be notoriously hard to detect and easy to cover up. But does blockchain technology with its distributed digital ledger now offer a new tool to help organizations reduce risk and prevent fraud? Which key business and technical factors will help blockchain scale for the large enterprise? Attend this...

Moving from Indicators of Compromise to Indicators of Attackers: But Will Attacker Attribution Really Help Us?

Presented by Jackie Castelli , Richard T. Jacobs , Noam Jolles , Avivah Litan • June 13, 2017

How does attacker attribution help a CISO and an enterprise? The answer: More than most might think. Most organizations don't care who the attacker is. They just want to stave off attacks. But could they do more? By using indicators of compromise, for instance, organizations can strengthen their defenses. IOCs are...

2015 Faces of Fraud - Los Angeles

Presented by Tom Field , Avivah Litan • November 6, 2014

As recent incidents prove: Retail point-of-sale breaches are on the rise, creating greater payment card fraud headaches for banking institutions. How does the impact of these crimes compare to that of account takeover, check fraud, insider crimes and the emerging realms of virtual and mobile payments? Receive insights...

Identity Data Privacy is Dead: Why We Need to Migrate From Static Identity Verification to Dynamic Identity Proofing

Presented by Avivah Litan • November 6, 2014

Until we get to a stage where we can guarantee the confidentiality of traditional identity reference data such as names, addresses, emails and favorite cat colors, we must move away from relying on this static data for authentication. Truly massive amounts of this information are stolen on a regular basis, proving we...

Big Data Analytics & Context-Aware Security

Presented by Avivah Litan • May 13, 2014

Fraud Summit - Chicago 2014 - Banking institutions face sophisticated fraud threats from multiple channels simultaneously, and traditional device and application controls are insufficient to provide security. Enter the concept of context-aware security, which leverages big data analytics among multiple layers of...

Fraud Outlook: Evolving Threats and Legal Minefields

Presented by Avivah Litan , Ronald Raether • May 13, 2014

Fraud Summit - Chicago 2014 - You know today's hottest fraud threats. But what are the emerging schemes that should concern you? Which anti-fraud technologies should you be testing? Where are the potential legal traps to avoid? In this session from ISMG's Chicago Fraud Summit, Gartner's Avivah Litan and attorney...

Survey Results: 2013 Faces of Fraud

Presented by Tom Field , Nancy Guglielmo , Avivah Litan , Troy Pugh • June 13, 2013

From the growth of mobile malware to the refinement of sophisticated banking Trojans and the proliferation of point-of-sale and retail breaches, the fraud landscape continues to evolve for banking institutions globally. But so, too, do the anti-fraud technology solutions institutions use to detect, prevent and...