EP83 What Does reCAPTCHA Actually Do and How Does It Do it? Product Manager Explains

Guest:  Badr Salmi, Product Manager for reCAPTCHA Topics: What is reCAPTCHA? Aren’t you guys the super annoying 'click on the busses' thing? What is account defender? Why was this a natural next step for you? What are the actual threats that this handles - and handles well? Specific web attacks? Web fraud? Let’s talk about account fraud, what do these attacks look like and how do bad guys monetize today? What about payment fraud? Could you score a payment session as well as a login session risk, or is that different?  How does this work with multi factor authentication? Recommended reading: “Code” book Recapcha page “Protect your users’ accounts with reCAPTCHA Enterprise’s account defender” blog “Double-clicking, but not on fire hydrants, with bot fighters” (ep19)

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