ME financial institutions plagued by online fraud

A comprehensive survey by Singapore-based software firm ReadiMinds on the state of online security in Middle Eastern financial institutions has found that fraud is still a major concern in the region.

While internal fraud is a top security problem in the Middle East, external frauds have now been recognised as the fastest growing area of online fraud here. Risks are magnified by the fact that 75% of the survey respondents, representing a cross section of the region’s major banks, rated their own institution’s ability to counter online security threats as only ‘average’.

“We have seen marked improvement in awareness of challenges posed by online threats – some of it is probably the result of couple of high-profile regional fraud cases widely reported in the media during the year,” ReadiMinds CEO Naren Nagpal commented. “It seems the region mostly uses basic channel-wise transaction security primarily targeted for identity theft, as opposed to prevent broader online frauds.”

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