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How to Defend Against Account Opening Abuse

David Sénécal works for Akamai as a Director of Engineering — Fraud and Abuse and is the author of The Reign of Botnets . He is passionate about improving internet safety and is an expert in online fraud and bot detection . He has over 25 years of experience working with web performance, security, and enterprise networking technologies across various roles, including support, integration, consulting, development, product management, architecture, and research.

This is the third post in a three-part blog series about account opening abuse. Part one defined account opening abuse, discussed how it manifests differently across six industries, and explored how these accounts can be reused within broader fraud schemes. Part two explained how fraudsters execute account opening abuse .…