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ABA Bank Compliance Magazine – Beyond the Bounds: What Compliance Should Know About Cybersecurity
This article by Gary M. Shiffman appeared in the November/December 2021 issue of the American Bankers Association’s Bank Compliance Magazine, which can be accessed here. For almost a decade, Instagram influencer Ramon “Hushpuppi” Abbas was best known for his lavish...

Taylor & Francis – The (Non) Deus-Ex Machina: A Realistic Assessment of Machine Learning for Countering Domestic Terrorism
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism on October 7, 2021, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1057610X.2021.1987656?journalCode=uter20 In light of the...

TechCrunch – Ransomware: A market problem deserves a market solution
This article by Gary M. Shiffman originally appeared in TechCrunch on September 16, 2021. REvil is a solid choice for a villain’s name: R Evil. Revil. Evil and yet fun. I could imagine Black Widow, Hulk and Spider-Man teaming up to topple the leadership of REvil...
Forbes: Data’s Double Edges: How To Use Machine Learning To Solve The Problem Of Unused Data In Risk Management
This article by Gary M. Shiffman originally appeared in Forbes on June 16, 2021. View the full article here. According to my company's research, a full 25% of PPP fraud cases brought by the Department of Justice could have been easily prevented. The fraud is so...
WashingtonExec: Is the Risk in the Data You Choose or the Data You Don’t?
This article by Gary M. Shiffman originally appeared in WashingtonExec on June 30, 2021. View the full article here. Mission: Impossible In the 1996 movie “Mission: Impossible,” Ethan Hunt (played by Tom Cruise) is part of an elite intelligence and national security...
ABA Bank Compliance Magazine: AI and the Future of Bank Compliance: How Do You Know If It Is Working?
This article by Gary M. Shiffman originally appeared the ABA Bank Compliance Magazine. Artificial Intelligence democratizes; it is the great equalizer that allows non-technical people to perform complex and previously unthinkable tasks using technology, without...