Developer Coffee Chat: Event-Driven ATO Defense with Orkes Conductor

Build durable, risk-based ATO playbooks that actually execute

Account Takeover (ATO) in financial systems is a sequence of weak signals, such as impossible travel or anomalous transfers, that must be correlated into a decision and then translated into safe, auditable actions across many systems.In this coffee chat, you’ll learn how to design an event-driven ATO defense pipeline using Orkes Conductor as the orchestration layer, so detection doesn’t die in a dashboard, and response doesn’t rely on brittle scripts.

You’ll be equipped to build:

A signal normalization layer with event contracts
A risk state machine (session → account → transaction) that can be replayed andd about otent response actions, including step-up authentication, token/session revocation, holds, payee blocks, and case creation
Human-in-the-loop gates for high-impact actions
An audit-ready execution trail: what was decided, why, and what actions ran successfully

Duration: ~40 minutes | Difficulty: Intermediate