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)