About the free webinar
Businesses face ever-increasing cyber threats and fraud. Protecting your digital network boundaries now means safeguarding the hundreds, even thousands, of identities accessing your resources or conducting business. These identities are critical points of vulnerability that hackers relentlessly exploit for illegal financial gain.
The primary defense against these exploits is a robust verification and authentication framework that leverages real-time risk signals for an accurate view of an identity's risk profile. But do you know which high-fidelity signals to track, why they matter, and how to layer methods without adding friction to the consumer journey?
Here's what you'll learn:
Your presenters:
Harish Manepalli
CTO
Zumigo
Harish is a technologist who has led teams in delivering industry-first software solutions across various domains. Most recently, he led the delivery of workforce authentication, authorization, and compliance solutions at Amazon. Prior to Amazon, Harish was vice president of engineering at Zumigo and was in charge of the development of the Zumigo Assure Identity and Zumigo Strong Authentication solutions. His prior roles include leadership positions with Repli, Bsquare, Xiotech, Ensoftek.
Madhu Vudali
VP, Product Manager
Zumigo
Madhu Vudali is a product management leader with extensive experience building, marketing and scaling innovative products and applications leveraging AI/ML, Data Science, and Optimization. Prior to joining Zumigo, he founded a startup applying blockchain and generative AI for personalized engagement. Madhu has held leadership positions at enterprises including Google, Apple, and Yahoo!.
Kawalpreet Sandhu
Product Manager
Verizon
Kawalpreet Sandhu is a seasoned fraud prevention and identity expert with over a decade of experience leading innovation in financial services and telecommunications. As a Product Manager at Verizon, Kawal is at the forefront of developing next-generation capabilities in identity verification, authentication, and fraud mitigation, contributing to major advancements in protecting customer trust and securing digital interactions. A Certified Fraud Examiner, Kawal is passionate about building scalable solutions that strike the right balance between security and friction, driving real-world impact across industries.
Matthew Windt
Product Manager
Verizon
Matthew Windt is a product leader specializing in identity, fraud prevention, and secure platform APIs. At Verizon he leads the development of authentication and risk products that power secure digital experiences for enterprises. His recent work explores frictionless 2FA and identity strategies for agentic AI transactions. He is particularly focused on bridging telco infrastructure with modern identity protocols to enable seamless, phishing-resistant authentication at scale.
Ronald Praetsch
Co-Founder
About Fraud
Ronald leverages his extensive experience in payments & fraud to inform the structure and content of the site. Outside of About-Fraud, Ronald consults regularly with merchants, payment service providers and fraud solution vendors. Before About-Fraud, he spent close to a decade in various payments and fraud prevention roles at Sift Science, Fareportal, Booking.com and Pay.On in both Europe and North America.