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David MacDonald

Author: David MacDonald

David is a Senior Solutions Architect focused on helping New Zealand startups build secure and scalable solutions. He has spent most of his career building and operating SaaS products that serve a variety of industries.

Figure 1. Prevent account creation fraud with AWS WAF Fraud Control – Account Creation Fraud Prevention

Prevent account creation fraud with AWS WAF Fraud Control – Account Creation Fraud Prevention

Threat actors use sign-up pages and login pages to carry out account fraud, including taking unfair advantage of promotional and sign-up bonuses, publishing fake reviews, and spreading malware. In 2022, AWS released AWS WAF Fraud Control – Account Takeover Prevention (ATP) to help protect your application’s login page against credential stuffing attacks, brute force attempts, and […]