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In this episode, Matt Cooke, General Manager of Arcot, the Payment Security Division of Broadcom, shares his insights on the key findings and strategic recommendations from the inaugural Arcot Payments Report. While 3-D Secure (3DS) has long been used to prevent fraud, this report reveals how 3DS transaction insights can help customers, partners, and processors optimize their own strategies to improve payment outcomes, eliminate unnecessary buyer friction, and drive revenue growth. Download the full report at brcm.tech/Arcot2026PaymentsReport.

Explore the evolution of the Arcot business into Broadcom’s Payment Security Division, and its core mission to make 3-D Secure work better. We dive into the rapid advancements of the EMV 3-D Secure protocol and why the Arcot Smart Ruleset is becoming the industry standard for reducing fraud and improving operational performance. We pull back the curtain on our security infrastructure, featuring our deployment of frontier AI, and examine how Arcot's Secondary Risk Evaluation is now embedded into the challenge flow to stop social engineering fraud. Plus, we look toward the future as agentic payments take center stage while AI bots begin executing transactions. Ready to stay ahead of the curve? Head over to arcot.com for our latest briefs, white papers, scorecards, and tech resources.

Symantec Threat Hunters found malware that turns a legitimate document-security platform into its own exfiltration channel. Infostealer.Speagle hijacks Cobra DocGuard to chase Chinese ballistic missile documents — then uses the platform's own driver to delete itself. A look at the Runningcrab activity cluster. Listen in.

Arcot leverages advanced AI and machine learning to maximize real-time fraud detection and minimize consumer friction by pairing its 25-year global data network and proprietary risk scoring algorithm, the RAN Score, with the automated, dynamic Arcot Smart Ruleset. This powerful combination outperforms static, human-managed rules, delivering superior ROI through massive fraud loss savings and operational efficiency. To outsmart increasingly sophisticated fraudsters, leadership emphasizes the critical need for businesses to “skate where the puck is going” and urgently internalize AI at scale. By leveraging frontier AI, Arcot delivers the cutting-edge security essential for safeguarding clients against the digital instability ahead.

SIEM was supposed to be the nerve center of every security operation — collect every log, correlate every event, surface every threat. Most organizations ended up with an expensive log warehouse that generates more noise than signal. Recorded live from RSAC outside Moscone, Dan sits down with Justin Falck — Head of Product for Endpoint at the Enterprise Security Group at Broadcom — to break down exactly where the SIEM model broke, why "magic correlation" never showed up, and what's actually replacing it in modern security operations.