Parul Sharma

Parul Sharma

Parul Sharma is senior director, fraud and identity at LexisNexis Risk Solutions, a data science company and leader in providing essential information to help customers across industry and government assess, predict and manage risk.

E-Commerce

When Bots Attack: How the E-Commerce Industry Has Reached an Inflection Point

June 13, 2019 at 3:51 pm

Last year, consumers in the U.S. alone spent more than $517 billion with online merchants, up 15 percent from 2017. In 2018, the blockbuster holiday shopping season saw more than $17.8 billion in online sales in just the five-day period beginning on Thanksgiving, with a record $6.6 billion transacted on Cyber Monday. Black Friday marked the first…