Finance & Financial Services in Kenya

finance and financial services industry cyber security

The Challenge

The Finance & Financial Services industry has seen some of the most aggressive and sophisticated cyber attacks to-date.

Most hackers are after huge profits, and financial services companies are a prime target in recent attacks. Hackers are looking to steal customer information, disrupt operations to make you lose money, blackmail you for a ransom, and steal sensitive secrets.

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How we can help

Secmentis can help you proactively test your organization's security and defend your critical data through the following services:

External Penetration Testing to identify and proactively resolve external security vulnerabilities
Internal Penetration Testing to identify and proactively resolve internal security concerns
Physical Penetration Testing to identify and proactively resolve vulnerabilities in physical security controls
Security Hardening to harden your IT infrastructure against attacks
Vulnerability Assessment get up to date with your current external or internal security posture
DDoS Protection to protect your external IT infrastructure from malicious takedowns by cyber criminals

What motivates cyber attacks?

Information Theft — cyber criminals want to steal customer and business-critical information
Espionage — cyber criminals want to monitor your activities and steal information
Hacktivism — cyber criminals want to make a political statement
Sabotage — cyber criminals want to blackmail or disrupt your business
Cyber Warfare — cyber criminals want to steal your business secrets, and use your systems as stepping stones

Examples of cyberattacks

The following are examples of cyber attacks in your industry:

Hackers' attack cracked 10 financial firms in major assault
US forex broker compromised in cyber attack
77K accounts of US financial giant leaked due to DAC group hack
Attackers used nearly one million IPs to brute-force a financial institution
U.S. SEC says cyber security biggest risk to financial system

Cost of A Data Breach for Financial sector

$206 per capita, second highest overall

(source: Ponemon Institute)

Businesses we work with: Asset management companies, Diversified financial services companies, Captive/Non-captive finance companies, Investment management companies, Investment funds, Hedge funds, Hedge fund management, Leasing companies, Pension companies, Securities/Non-securities companies, Securities Exchange, Foreign Exchange (Forex) companies, Trading companies, Trading portals, Online portals, Forex portals, Currency exchange companies, Wire transfer companies, Remittance companies, Private Equity companies, Venture Capital companies, Angel Investment companies

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