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Fed updates synthetic identity fraud mitigation toolkit

Bank Regulatory Federal Issues Federal Reserve Privacy/Cyber Risk & Data Security Synthetic Identity Fraud Risk Management

Recently, the Federal Reserve updated a synthetic identity fraud mitigation toolkit offering new information regarding fraud detection technology and data sharing and discussing the value of fraud information sharing within the industry to help fight synthetic identity fraud. As previously covered by InfoBytes, in February, the Fed released the synthetic identity fraud mitigation toolkit intended to help financial institutions, businesses, and consumers improve awareness, detection, measurement, and mitigation of identity fraud. The recent updates in the toolkit provide guidance on enhancing organizations' ability to prevent and mitigate synthetic identity fraud using a variety of detection and prevention technologies and approaches. Topics contained in the toolkit include insights and downloadable resources covering, among other things: (i) the basics of synthetic identity fraud; (ii) how synthetic identities are used; (iii) when synthetics become a reality; (iv) detecting a synthetic identity; (v) validating identities; and (vi) identifying synthetics.