How to Seamlessly Handle Seasonal Spikes
A practical guide to fraud strategy during high-volume sales periods — because the worst time to find out your system isn't ready is when traffic is surging.
Published July 2025
Peak season is when fraud systems either earn their keep or expose their weaknesses. This piece breaks down how e-commerce teams can stay ahead of seasonal spikes — not by adding more rules or more manual reviews, but by building systems flexible enough to adapt in real time.
The goal was to make technical fraud strategy feel actionable for a practitioner audience — clear enough to be useful, direct enough to cut through the noise.
