Fraud Prevention at the Edge

Fraud Prevention at the Edge: Upgrade Your CDN for Enhanced Security

Why Fraud Prevention Belongs at the Edge

Benefits of Edge-Based Fraud Prevention

Edge computing brings security closer to your users, enabling ultra-fast, accurate decision-making while maintaining strict privacy standards. Unlike centralized solutions that lag behind modern threats, edge-based fraud prevention operates in real-time across customer interactions, safeguarding every step of the journey.

Unmatched Speed

Real-time decisions with microsecond latency for seamless customer experiences.

Scalable Security

Protect every endpoint without straining IT resources or compromising performance.

Enhanced Privacy

Encrypt and store data within your infrastructure, ensuring compliance with GDPR and CCPA

Comprehensive Insights

Gain visibility into entire customer journeys, from browsing to payment.

Resilience

Deploys to your existing infrastructure, and fails-open on errors. No DNS redirects or other single-points-of-failure.

Cost Efficiency

Avoid requirement for lengthy release cycles. Focus your IT and engineering resource on delivering to their core competencies.

The Evolution of Fraud Prevention

Fraudsters evolve faster than traditional defenses. As threats like account takeovers and payment fraud become more sophisticated, businesses need solutions that can respond in real time.

The solution? The Edge

Deploying fraud prevention at the network perimeter through your Content Delivery Network (CDN) brings advanced security closer to your users, delivering unprecedented speed and accuracy.

Darwinium leverages Edge Workers, serverless computing deployed on your CDN, to safeguard your users in real time.

Transform the way you detect and act on suspicious behavior. Stop account takeovers, credential stuffing, and more, all while delivering a frictionless user experience.

Behavioral Biometrics

Understand user behavior at a granular level, from keystrokes to navigation paths.

Device Recognition

Identify trusted devices and flag anomalies instantly.

Journey Orchestration

Monitor and adapt customer journeys dynamically based on trust and risk levels.

Why the Edge

Darwinium takes fraud prevention to the next level by operating directly at the perimeter edge—where your users interact with your infrastructure. By deploying custom risk assessments and data extraction logic directly within your CDN network, Darwinium provides unparalleled speed, accuracy, and security. Whether it's detecting anomalies at login, flagging suspicious activity during checkout, or leveraging over 800 profiling data points for advanced insights, Darwinium empowers businesses to stop fraud in real-time. With robust encryption, anonymized data handling, and fail-safe mechanisms, Darwinium ensures your users’ trust while safeguarding your brand.

Deployment Details

Deployment can be initiated automatically by the Darwinium platform when a journey is updated (requires your CDN credentials to be entered into Darwinium), or manually by your infrastructure team using tools like Terraform or Pulumi.

This is primarily controlled by your organization and its fraud intelligence requirements. By default, we collect insights at the network level such as browser, JA3 fingerprint, user agent, and primary IP address. Journeys can be configured to inject additional profiling, which provides deep insights around VPN, DNS IPs and browser/OS/device fingerprints, as well as behavioral biometrics on keyboard, mouse, touch, and sensors at a page and form-field level. In total there are over 800 possible profiled data points.

Darwinium’s deployed Edge workers play a key role in our ability to process data securely. We use Hybrid Public Key Encryption (HPKE) to facilitate encryption and anonymization at the Edge.

Darwinium has been engineered to fail-open. The vast majority of our risk assessment is computed upon your CDN infrastructure rather than on Darwinium’s SaaS services.

Why Choose Darwinium for Fraud Prevention?

Traditional fraud prevention systems often rely on backend APIs and IT-intensive solutions that add latency and operational complexity. By contrast, Darwinium offers:

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Speed

Real-time decisions within microseconds, not milliseconds.

Scalability

Seamless integration with global CDN infrastructure.

Resilience

Systems that continue to function even during service interruptions.

Privacy

Encrypted customer data stored within your infrastructure.

The Darwinium Advantage

Darwinium provides a robust, scalable, and privacy-first solution for fraud prevention

We believe that the new frontier for fighting fraud is at the perimeter edge. Traditionally the Content Delivery Network (CDN) has been a great place for optimizing network performance.

More recently CDNs have become useful places for security and infrastructure teams to provide DDoS protection and Web Application Firewall (WAF) capabilities. For attacks like low-and-slow account takeovers, however, where fraudsters space their traffic to avoid detection, WAFs simply lack the business insight and deep profiling needed during transaction analysis. Until recently, when fraud teams required solutions to issues like account takeovers, identity abuse, and payment fraud, they needed rely on the IT and engineering team to deploy Javascript tags on pages for device profiling, and supply additional business intelligence such as usernames or payment amounts via backend API calls to a 3rd party.

This took great time and expense to implement for each individual use case that organizations needed coverage for.
It also added latency to requests, and required engineering teams to carefully plan remediation.

Adversaries adapt faster than software release cycles, and often fraudsters were quick to determine points that were protected and devise solutions that worked around this.

With Darwinium, your organization is able to configure fraud prevention in much the same way that you configure your WAF. You simply define the endpoints you need to protect, define mappings for in-stream content, and run your risk model.

By virtue of operating at the network edge we’re able to obtain far deeper insights into the network, as well as the ability to monitor and observe new touchpoints without the pain of core application release cycles and human resource.

Monitor Every Interaction in One Seamless Platform

Darwinium provides end-to-end visibility into every step of the customer journey, from the moment a user lands on your site to checkout and beyond.

Holistic Insights
Anomaly Detection
Dynamic Orchestration

Respond to Threats Instantly with Microsecond Latency

Darwinium leverages the power of edge computing to make split-second decisions at the network perimeter.

Latency Reduction
Proactive Defense
Scalable Threat Management

Integrates with Your CDN in Just 15 Minutes

Darwinium’s deployment process is designed to be fast, efficient, and minimally disruptive.

Integration Simplicity
No IT Bottlenecks
Centralized Management

Encrypts and Anonymizes Data at the Edge, Keeping Sensitive Information Secure

Darwinium places data security and privacy at the forefront, leveraging advanced encryption techniques at the edge.

Edge-Based Encryption
Anonymized Data Storage
Localized Data Control

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is edge computing in fraud prevention?

Edge computing in fraud prevention refers to deploying security measures directly within a Content Delivery Network (CDN) at the network perimeter. This allows for real-time detection and action on fraudulent activities, reducing latency and improving scalability while keeping sensitive data secure. Solutions like Darwinium use edge computing to enhance customer journey protection without compromising user experience.

How does edge computing improve fraud detection and prevention?

Edge computing improves fraud detection by enabling real-time decisioning at the network level. Unlike traditional backend solutions, edge-based systems analyze user behavior closer to the source, allowing for faster responses to threats like account takeovers and credential stuffing. It also reduces latency and supports privacy through encryption and localized data storage.

What are the benefits of deploying fraud prevention at the edge?

Deploying fraud prevention at the edge offers several benefits, including:

Reduced Latency: Real-time decisions in microseconds.

Enhanced Privacy: Localized and encrypted data storage.

Scalability: Seamless integration with global CDNs.

Improved User Experience: Tailored interactions based on risk assessments.

Resilience: Fail-open systems ensure uninterrupted service during outages.

What are Edge Workers, and how do they enhance fraud prevention?

Edge Workers are serverless computing platforms that execute code closer to end users via a CDN. They enhance fraud prevention by analyzing traffic patterns, detecting bots, and identifying risky behavior in real time. This approach reduces unnecessary friction for legitimate users while protecting against threats like credential stuffing and account takeovers.

How does Darwinium ensure data privacy and compliance at the edge?

Darwinium ensures data privacy through edge-based encryption, allowing businesses to store sensitive data within their infrastructure and control access with their keys. This setup complies with regulations like GDPR and CCPA by preventing cross-border data transfers and securing user information against unauthorized access.

Why is edge computing better than traditional API-based fraud solutions?

Edge computing outperforms API-based solutions by eliminating the need for multiple API calls, reducing latency, and providing full visibility of customer journeys. It allows businesses to respond dynamically to threats without lengthy IT cycles, making fraud prevention faster, more scalable, and more cost-effective.