Early Warning
Product Security Engineer - Cloud
About This Role
About Early Warning
Early Warning® is a financial technology company focused on fraud prevention, risk management, and payment solutions for the banking and financial services sector. Established in the 1990s and owned by seven major U.S. banks, Early Warning has extensive experience in providing network intelligence to help financial institutions manage risk and ensure secure money movement. The company operates the National Shared DatabaseSM, which includes data from over 2,500 financial institutions. This resource contains information on nearly 700 million deposit accounts and billions of transactions each year. Early Warning uses advanced machine learning and predictive analytics to offer real-time risk assessments and fraud detection. Their services include fraud and risk management solutions, deposit account screening, and the Zelle® Network, a popular peer-to-peer payment service. Additionally, Early Warning provides multi-factor authentication for enhanced security and runs consumer education initiatives to promote safer financial practices.
Security at Early Warning
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Security Philosophy
“Information not publicly available for stated AppSec mission, developer enablement vs. gatekeeping statements, risk philosophy referencing 'risk-based approach,' 'threat modeling,' or business-context language, or stated AppSec pain points or near-term goals. However, the company's general philosophy includes that 'Trust is at the heart of everything we do.'”
Security Team
Information not publicly available for org model or reporting chain for AppSec, publicly named AppSec leaders with representative quotes (beyond general security leadership roles found), or team size estimate from LinkedIn or careers pages with explicit AppSec headcount. Public evidence indicates an offensive security leadership role ('provides offensive security leadership for the Early Warning Offensive Security program'), a Technology Risk Management Director role ('Serve as the first line risk leader aligned to a Data and/or Technology team'), the appointment of Mengistu Tad Tilahun as Chief Technology Officer, and Nadeem Iftikhar as an 'Enterprise Cyber Security & Risk Management leader'. A VP, Facilities & Security role is also mentioned as a 'strategic, hands-on leader'.
Key Initiatives
Early Warning operates a responsible disclosure program which is currently managed by HackerOne. Information is not publicly available regarding explicit Security Champions program references, 'shift left' technical practices (IDE, pre-commit, CI/CD quotes), vulnerability management SLAs, MTTR, or ticket ownership language, secure SDLC artifacts (e.g., 'security reviews for all major features'), or recent AppSec tool rollouts or product-specific tooling citations.
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