Sr. Director Financial Crimes Unit
Synovus Financial Corp
Caleb Callahan is Senior Director of the Financial Crime Unit at Synovus Bank and head of enterprise fraud. Caleb is responsible for the detection and investigation of fraud, as well as strategy and governance of the bank’s fraud program. Caleb has two decade’s experience across Payments, Fraud, Identity Management, and Credit Monitoring. Before joining Synovus, Caleb was VP of Fraud and Risk at Stash, VP of Global Product, Fraud Operations and Strategy at Equifax, and Director of Payments and Fraud at Jet.com, Walmart Global Treasury. He is a graduate of Bucknell University.
Combating cyber risks and fraud in today’s digital banking environment, where threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated, and more vulnerabilities are being exploited, requires institutions to develop a multi-layered, iterative approach to cybersecurity that safeguards sensitive data, adheres to regulation, and proactively anticipates and mitigates risks. Learn from industry executives and cybersecurity experts on the evolving sophistication of cyber-attacks and what components of a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy are most critical, including a robust cyber infrastructure, artificial intelligence-driven fraud detection systems, advanced authentication and access controls, cyber resilience and risk testing, and cyber incident response guidelines for distributed denial-of-service attacks, ransomware, insider threats, phishing and social engineering, and more.