Advantio at the 6th Eastern Europe EMA Fraud Conference

Advantio representative Alexey Grebenyuk will participate in the 6th EMA Fraud Conference 19 and 20 September in Odessa, Ukraine. The conference represents one of the most important forums of Eastern Europe regarding fraud problem, in which more than 100 specialists from 10 Eastern European countries will participate.

Advantio will hold 2 speeches regarding ATM, POS and Logical security. An agenda of the conference is full of interesting reports about real and existing problems that today affect the market and discussions about that will take place during the round tables and panel discussions.

Here we provide our readers with a short list of the main topics that will be treated during the EMA Forum 2013.

• Review of АТМ-fraud in Europe with examples and statistics. This information will be presented by CIS Regional Manager of Advantio Alexey Grebenyuk
• Delegates from Czech, Moldovan and Polish police and Department of cybercrime fighting of Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine will tell about fraud trends in their countries. This information will serve as basis for the panel discussions and forecast on fraud tendencies in 2014.
• CS company will provide expert’s review of actual Internet-banking security problems on the examples of iFobs software. On an example of the same system a business case on payment monitoring in the Client-bank system of one Ukrainian bank will be presented.
• Member of the board of E-PASAULE Ltd (Latvia) will share his experience on protecting remote banking systems from external attacks. 
• Delegate from State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine will make a report about fighting the legalisation of finances that were acquired through cybercrime.
• During the round table problems of neglecting workstation security measures from the side of client will be reviewed. This problem stipulates growth of CNP and remote banking fraud. Possible solutions will be discussed. The round table will be moderated by Kaspersky Lab along with representatives from banks.
• Kaspersky Lab will present a solution for protection of remote banking systems on client’s side - Kaspersky Safe Money
• An expert in the security field, the company Advantio (Ireland) will raise the topic of logical security of ATMs and POS. Proposals on hardening the logical security of terminal devices will be made by the company GMV Innovating Solutions S.L.(Spain)
• Reports from the Executive Director of the bank AIK Banka (Serbia), ETCCEE company (Germany) and association “EMA” will  concern practical moments and advantages of a fraud information exchange between banks on the example of Serbian Payment Security Forum, Fraud Prevention Network and Exchange-online system.
• Company VASCO Data Security that is a world leader in the field of identification and digital signature solutions will present an expert approach to the problem of implementing strong authentication.
• Expert in the field of information security, company CA Technologies (Germany) will tell about ensuring security of eWallet and its application with progressive two-factor authentication.

Currently, 144 representatives from monitoring, risk management and security departments of banks, law enforcement and state departments and technology vendors from 10 countries confirmed participation in this conference. 

MORE ABOUT THE EVENT

EMA & the 6-th Eastern Europe EMA Fraud Conference. The Association was established by Ukrainian banks members of Europay International Payment System in 1999 with the purpose to coordinate market development of payment cards Maestro and MasterCard. The EMA cooperates predominantly with international payment systems or with other systems based on payment cards use and working in accordance with international standards. To share international experience in preventing and combating fraud, banks and companies being members of EMA Association together with the State Financial Monitoring Service of Ukraine and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine have organizes the 6-th Eastern Europe EMA Fraud Conference, which will be held on September 19-20, 2013 in Black Sea Hotel Bugaz od Odessa, Ukraine. [source ema.com.ua]