Skip to content

Fraud Detection

What is Fraud Detection?

Technologies and processes for identifying fraudulent activities and transactions through pattern analysis, anomaly detection, and rule-based monitoring.

Information Security

Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as fraud detection. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on fraud detection

Requirements naming fraud detection across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

Operate fraud detection + Transaction Risk Analysis + rate limiting + sandbox per scheme requirements. Fraud Detection and Transaction Risk Analysis must (a) implement real-time fraud detection at authorisation + initiation + completion + (b) consider device +...

OPENBANK-6 · Fraud Detection, Transaction Risk Analysis, Rate Limiting, Sandbox

Detect authentication fraud through anomaly monitoring and respond with credential actions and investigation.

ISO29115-9.2 · Fraud Detection and Response

Operate detection + logging + IR + breach notification + fraud detection per NRF framework + NIST SP 800-61 + state breach notification laws + PCI DSS incident response + brand operating rules.

NRFCS-7 · Detection, Logging, Incident Response, Breach Notification, and Fraud Detection

HKMA C-RAF Domain 3 PROTECTION + Domain 4 DETECTION. DOMAIN 3 PROTECTION (6 sub-areas): (1) ACCESS CONTROL - identity + access management + privileged access (PAM) + MFA + zero trust + just-in-time access + role-based access + access reviews + offboarding;

HKMA-CRAF-Domain3-4-Protection-Detection · HKMA C-RAF Domain 3 (Protection) + Domain 4 (Detection) - Access, Data, Infrastructure, Application, Monitoring, Testing, Threat Intel

Providers serving the elderly must protect their lawful interests, account for their travel, medical, consumption and other needs, provide intelligent and accessible adaptations per state rules, and support fraud detection and prevention.

CN-ALG-A19 · Protection of Elderly Users

FTC Safeguards Rule emerging areas in 2024-2025. AI USE IN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS: FTC AI guidance + 2024 OMB M-22-09 ZTA + 2024 OMB M-24-08 AI Risk Management + Section 5 FTC Act unfair-and-deceptive enforcement against discriminatory AI + opaque scoring + bi...

FTC-Safeguards-AI-SBOM-Pipeline · AI Use, SBOM, Supply Chain and 2024-2025 Emerging Areas

Questions people ask about fraud detection

What is Fraud Detection?
Technologies and processes for identifying fraudulent activities and transactions through pattern analysis, anomaly detection, and rule-based monitoring.
Why is Fraud Detection important for compliance?
Fraud Detection is a key concept in Information Security. Understanding fraud detection helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Fraud Detection?
Fraud Detection appears in the requirement text of Open Banking Security, ISO/IEC 29115:2023 - Entity Authentication Assurance Framework, NRF Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Framework (National Retail Federation), HKMA Cyber Resilience Assessment Framework (C-RAF), Administrative Measures for the Security Assessment of Generative AI Services (2023) and Algorithmic Recommendation Management Provisions (2022). Across these standards we have identified 8 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Fraud Detection?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how fraud detection applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Fraud Detection applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.