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Arkose Labs' Mission
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RSAC 2026

Frank Teruel on Arkose Labs' Mission: Making Fraud Unprofitable

If you make fraud unprofitable, it goes away. If you don't, you make it inevitable.

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March 25, 2026
Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA

Fraud today is a fusion of volumetric bots, agentic AI, and human fraud farms. Arkose Labs COO Frank Teruel explains why the company's entire platform is built around one idea: make fraud unprofitable, and it disappears.

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Frank Teruel
COO, Arkose Labs

Frank Teruel serves as Chief Operating Officer of Arkose Labs, leading the company's mission to make fraud economically unprofitable for attackers across every major consumer-facing industry.

Key Takeaways
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Arkose Labs is really focused on the idea of fraud deterrence in this new world of a fusion between volumetric bot-driven attacks, agentic agents, human fraud farms, slow and low human attacks.

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How do we create a platform that allows us to identify, challenge, inform, mitigate and ultimately break the model, the business model of the adversary?

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The reality is, if you make fraud unprofitable, it goes away. If you don't, you make it inevitable.

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That gives us a purview of identity that's very unique, 'cause we get to see these identities across the entirety of the industry.

Full Transcript
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The Fraud Deterrence Mission
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I'm the chief operating officer. Arkose Labs is really focused on the idea of fraud deterrence in this new world of a fusion between volumetric bot-driven attacks, agentic agents, human fraud farms, slow and low human attacks. How do we create a platform that allows us to identify, challenge, inform, mitigate, and ultimately break the business model of the adversary? The reality is, if you make fraud unprofitable, it goes away. If you don't, you make it inevitable.

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A Unique Purview of Identity
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It's the issue of our heritage in bot migrating to a much broader security perspective as it relates to the important flows — new account registrations, logins — those really critical flows for our customers. We represent today the world's largest consumer-facing brands, across every industry: the big banks, the social companies, the two-way marketplaces, the big rideshare companies, technology. That gives us a purview of identity that's very unique, because we get to see these identities across the entirety of the industry, and that helps us inform that mission of making fraud unprofitable.

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