aster.cloud aster.cloud
  • /
  • Platforms
    • Public Cloud
    • On-Premise
    • Hybrid Cloud
    • Data
  • Architecture
    • Design
    • Solutions
    • Enterprise
  • Engineering
    • Automation
    • Software Engineering
    • Project Management
    • DevOps
  • Programming
    • Learning
  • Tools
  • About
  • /
  • Platforms
    • Public Cloud
    • On-Premise
    • Hybrid Cloud
    • Data
  • Architecture
    • Design
    • Solutions
    • Enterprise
  • Engineering
    • Automation
    • Software Engineering
    • Project Management
    • DevOps
  • Programming
    • Learning
  • Tools
  • About
aster.cloud aster.cloud
  • /
  • Platforms
    • Public Cloud
    • On-Premise
    • Hybrid Cloud
    • Data
  • Architecture
    • Design
    • Solutions
    • Enterprise
  • Engineering
    • Automation
    • Software Engineering
    • Project Management
    • DevOps
  • Programming
    • Learning
  • Tools
  • About
  • Tech

Protect Your Users’ Accounts With ReCAPTCHA Enterprise’s Account Defender

  • aster.cloud
  • March 27, 2022
  • 3 minute read

reCAPTCHA Enterprise is Google’s online fraud detection service that leverages over a decade of experience defending the internet. reCAPTCHA Enterprise can be used to prevent fraud and attacks perpetrated by scripts, bot software, or humans. When installed on a web page at the point of action, such as login, purchase, or account creation, reCAPTCHA Enterprise provides a frictionless user experience that allows legitimate users to proceed while fake users and bots are blocked.

As part of our continued investment to offer more tools to fight online fraud targeting your accounts and payments, we are pleased to announce account defender in public preview. It’s a new feature built into reCAPTCHA Enterprise that helps you determine if an action aligns or deviates from the account owner’s typical behavior.


Partner with aster.cloud
for your next big idea.
Let us know here.



From our partners:

CITI.IO :: Business. Institutions. Society. Global Political Economy.
CYBERPOGO.COM :: For the Arts, Sciences, and Technology.
DADAHACKS.COM :: Parenting For The Rest Of Us.
ZEDISTA.COM :: Entertainment. Sports. Culture. Escape.
TAKUMAKU.COM :: For The Hearth And Home.
ASTER.CLOUD :: From The Cloud And Beyond.
LIWAIWAI.COM :: Intelligence, Inside and Outside.
GLOBALCLOUDPLATFORMS.COM :: For The World's Computing Needs.
FIREGULAMAN.COM :: For The Fire In The Belly Of The Coder.
ASTERCASTER.COM :: Supra Astra. Beyond The Stars.
BARTDAY.COM :: Prosperity For Everyone.

<a href="https://aster.cloud/gcloud_use-account-defender-in-recaptcha-enterprise-to-protect-accounts-01_2000-970/"><img class="size-full wp-image-18379 aligncenter" src="https://aster.cloud/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/gcloud_use-account-defender-in-recaptcha-enterprise-to-protect-accounts-01_2000-970.jpg" alt="" width="2000" height="970" /></a>

 

What is account defender?

Account defender takes reCAPTCHA Enterprise’s traditional detection a step further.  It analyzes if the request is in alignment with the normal patterns of behavior demonstrated from the account, not just your website. This analysis is achieved by using a site-specific model that observes typical behavior patterns across your website to detect suspicious behavior or a change in activity. By using the site-specific model, reCAPTCHA Enterprise account defender helps you detect these main scenarios:

  • Suspicious activities linked to a potential account takeover or fake account
  • Accounts on your website with similar behaviors
  • Requests coming from devices that were marked as trusted for specific users
  • Synthetic accounts

By using account defender, you can:

  • Restrict or disable fraudulent accounts
  • Prevent account takeover attempts
  • Mitigate the successful account takeovers
  • Grant access only to the requests coming from legitimate user accounts
  • Reduce friction for users logging in from one of their trusted devices
Read More  Modern Analytics Made Easy With New Redshift, S3 Migration Tools

How account defender works

reCAPTCHA Enterprise account defender ties activity to a pseudonymous account identifier (labeled as hashedAccountId in the product) to the site owner. This is to protect the user’s privacy– the identity of the user can only be tied back to a plaintext username by the site owner. The user account identifier is then used by the site owner to annotate data related to the account. For example, the site owner generates a unique hashId such as 36228b7496a6ab9bb5fecf12b5799105 for their user. All requests from that user should include this hash for sensitive actions such as ‘login’, ‘signup’, ‘payment’ or ‘search’. This will allow reCAPTCHA Enterprise to build site specific models to determine if this account is hijacked or fake.

 

When combined with the already available Annotations API, site owners can send us account-related metadata such as incorrect password entry or passed two-factor authentication, which will help reCAPTCHA Enterprise determine suspicious patterns of activity.

To understand why account defender made its decision, we return additional details to indicate that this is an expected behavior for the user. On the other hand, if we have seen abusive requests that look like the current request, account defender will label this request as either a suspicious login or account creation.

If fraud is detected on your website from a user, a site owner can use the related accounts’ API to search for similar users. This will give site owners all hashed account identifiers showing similar behavior, allowing them to also investigate these accounts for fraud. To find new malicious accounts, you can look at account groups and analyze their usage patterns to determine if they are malicious. This allows you to protect all sensitive actions on your website including signups, logins, and payments.

Read More  3 Employee Traits That Help Scale A Tech Business

Further secure your account with multi-factor authentication and recommended actions

If you integrate with reCAPTCHA Enterprise’s multi-factor authentication, account defender will return a recommended action to indicate whether or not you should challenge a user. This capability helps reduce user friction for real users as well as costs associated with SMS authentication. If you use a non-Google MFA provider, this same capability can be achieved through the Annotations API.

Get started with account defender

New and current reCAPTCHA Enterprise customers can easily activate account defender in the Google Cloud console in a few clicks. For more detailed guidance, you can check out our documentation.

 

 

 

To learn more about how to use account defender to protect against account and payment fraud, sign up for our webinar on Tuesday, March 29 at 9am PST.

 

 

By: Badr Salmi (Product Manager reCAPTCHA Enterprise) and Aaron Malenfant (Technical Lead reCAPTCHA)
Source: Google Cloud Blog


For enquiries, product placements, sponsorships, and collaborations, connect with us at [email protected]. We'd love to hear from you!

Our humans need coffee too! Your support is highly appreciated, thank you!

aster.cloud

Related Topics
  • Google Cloud
  • Identity
  • reCaptcha
  • Security
You May Also Like
Getting things done makes her feel amazing
View Post
  • Computing
  • Data
  • Featured
  • Learning
  • Tech
  • Technology

Nurturing Minds in the Digital Revolution

  • April 25, 2025
View Post
  • Tech

Deep dive into AI with Google Cloud’s global generative AI roadshow

  • February 18, 2025
Volvo Group: Confidently ahead at CES
View Post
  • Tech

Volvo Group: Confidently ahead at CES

  • January 8, 2025
zedreviews-ces-2025-social-meta
View Post
  • Featured
  • Gears
  • Tech
  • Technology

What Not to Miss at CES 2025

  • January 6, 2025
View Post
  • Tech

IBM and Pasqal Plan to Expand Quantum-Centric Supercomputing Initiative

  • November 21, 2024
Black Friday Gifts
View Post
  • Tech

Black Friday. How to Choose the Best Gifts for Yourself and Others, Plus Our Top Recommendations.

  • November 16, 2024
zedreviews-Apple-iPhone-16-Pro-finish-lineup-240909
View Post
  • Featured
  • Gears
  • Tech
  • Technology
  • Tools

Apple debuts iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max

  • September 10, 2024
zedreviews-Apple-iPhone-16-Apple-Intelligence-240909
View Post
  • Featured
  • Gears
  • Tech
  • Technology

Apple introduces iPhone 16 and iPhone 16 Plus

  • September 10, 2024

Stay Connected!
LATEST
  • 1
    Just make it scale: An Aurora DSQL story
    • May 29, 2025
  • 2
    Reliance on US tech providers is making IT leaders skittish
    • May 28, 2025
  • Examine the 4 types of edge computing, with examples
    • May 28, 2025
  • AI and private cloud: 2 lessons from Dell Tech World 2025
    • May 28, 2025
  • 5
    TD Synnex named as UK distributor for Cohesity
    • May 28, 2025
  • Weigh these 6 enterprise advantages of storage as a service
    • May 28, 2025
  • 7
    Broadcom’s ‘harsh’ VMware contracts are costing customers up to 1,500% more
    • May 28, 2025
  • 8
    Pulsant targets partner diversity with new IaaS solution
    • May 23, 2025
  • 9
    Growing AI workloads are causing hybrid cloud headaches
    • May 23, 2025
  • Gemma 3n 10
    Announcing Gemma 3n preview: powerful, efficient, mobile-first AI
    • May 22, 2025
about
Hello World!

We are aster.cloud. We’re created by programmers for programmers.

Our site aims to provide guides, programming tips, reviews, and interesting materials for tech people and those who want to learn in general.

We would like to hear from you.

If you have any feedback, enquiries, or sponsorship request, kindly reach out to us at:

[email protected]
Most Popular
  • Understand how Windows Server 2025 PAYG licensing works
    • May 20, 2025
  • By the numbers: How upskilling fills the IT skills gap
    • May 21, 2025
  • 3
    Cloud adoption isn’t all it’s cut out to be as enterprises report growing dissatisfaction
    • May 15, 2025
  • 4
    Hybrid cloud is complicated – Red Hat’s new AI assistant wants to solve that
    • May 20, 2025
  • 5
    Google is getting serious on cloud sovereignty
    • May 22, 2025
  • /
  • Technology
  • Tools
  • About
  • Contact Us

Input your search keywords and press Enter.