Financial institutions don’t offer customers a secure channel for online payments

A global study by Kaspersky Lab and B2B International reveals that 33% of financial institutions donā€™t offer customers a secure channel for all their online payments, despite the fact that 62% have noticed a significant rise in customers making online financial transactions and 50% believe online financial fraud is increasing.

The survey found that many banks and other financial institutions are struggling to fully protect themselves and their customers from financial fraud at a time when customers are using an ever-wider range of devices to conduct a growing number of financial transactions online.

Two-thirds (65%) say that customers are increasingly using different devices to make online payments, yet just 53% have implemented two-factor authentication and only 50% have introduced a specialized, real-time anti-fraud solution ā€“ even though 22% believe this is the most effective form of protection available. Less than half (42%) extend such a solution to customer devices and only 67% implement a secure connection for all online payments.

Not surprisingly, 48% accept that they are only mitigating risk rather than removing it altogether; and 29% say it is cheaper to deal with online financial fraud incidents as they arise rather than to try to prevent them from happening.

ā€œThe study shows that banks and financial institutions are finding it difficult to manage online financial fraud in todayā€™s connected omni-channel consumer landscape. 38% of the organizations we spoke to admit that it is increasingly difficult to tell whether a transaction is fraudulent or genuine, with a worrying one in three opting for a ā€˜weā€™ll deal with it as it happensā€™ approach to fraud protection. If you consider that our own research uncovered 22.9 million financial malware attacks in 2014, targeting 2.7 million customers worldwide, it is clear that dealing with each incident individually is not a viable, long-term option. Customers deserve better and so does the financial services organization,ā€ said Ross Hogan, Head of SafeMoney Business Development, Kaspersky Fraud Prevention, Kaspersky Lab.

The study found that general Internet-security software solutions are not widely regarded as an effective method for preventing the increasingly well-disguised phishing and malware attacks that can lead to financial fraud. Less than 10% of respondents favored this option.

The preferred option is a specialist solution. Kaspersky Fraud Prevention is a comprehensive security solution designed to counter online banking fraud. It provides multi-layered protection for online and mobile banking. The main platform comprises two subsystems and one of these, a clientless engine, resides inside the bankā€™s infrastructure and ensures an additional layer of protection by analyzing banking operations on customersā€™ devices.

The other subsystem is a solution for endpoints such as computers and mobile devices. Once installed on a Mac or Windows computer, Kaspersky Fraud Prevention for Endpoints checks the authenticity of websites and opens pages in protected mode to ensure all personal data is protected from theft or modification. It also ensures no malware can be loaded onto the computer. The Kaspersky Fraud Prevention SDK, in turn, allows applications secured against online fraud to be created for Android, iOS or Windows Phone platforms.

 

Erick Vateta564 Posts

--- Erick Vateta is a lawyer by training, poet, script and creative writer by talent, a model, and tech enthusiast. He covers International tech trends, data security and cyber attacks.

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