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Pattie Dillon: Take the leap. [Anti-fraud] [Career Notes]

CyberWire Daily

N2K Networks, Inc.

Tech News, Daily News, News, Technology

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Please enjoy this encore of Career Notes. Product Manager in Anti-Fraud Solutions at SpyCloud, Pattie Dillon shares her journey from raising her family to specializing in the anti-fraud space. Upon reentering the workforce, Pattie worked on identity verification and developed a system with privacy concerns in mind. She moved to work in gift cards and was exposed to money laundering. Traveling along the fraud spectrum, Pattie learned about underground data and feels that this data can be leveraged to actually prevent and fight online fraud. Pattie believes if you don't try, you'll never know. We know we appreciate Pattie sharing her story with us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:52.5

My name is Patty Dillon.

0:56.4

I'm the product manager for anti-fraud solutions at SpyCloud.

1:04.6

I guess really, like way back, because of my age, I'm not a spring chicken.

1:15.0

It was just like being a wife and a mother.

1:18.4

And so I honestly loved doing that too.

1:24.7

But as my kids were growing up, I felt like I was really missing something.

1:32.3

And so I went out and found a number of different careers that I enjoyed, but the one that was most interesting to me and I had the most passion for was preventing fraud.

1:48.5

I've been doing this for, geez, close to 20 years in anti-fraud space, cybersecurity space.

2:02.7

I had a small company in upstate New York, and it served a number of small to medium-sized

2:11.8

businesses, and one of those businesses was an online tobacco business.

2:16.4

So there's many different types of tobacco being sold

2:20.0

online now, but at the time, it was very limited and the individual wanted to look for some

2:28.0

sort of age verification solution. I got into the data world and honestly was flabbergasted by how much information was out there

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