Friday, June 9 2017 18:43
Alexandr Avanesov

Kaspersky Lab conducted a seminar on financial cyber security in Yerevan

Kaspersky Lab conducted a seminar on financial cyber security in Yerevan

ArmInfo. The international leader in the field of computer security, Kaspersky Lab company, held a seminar for representatives of state and financial organizations on the theme "A look at financial security" on June 9 in Yerevan.

Representatives of the RA departments and leading companies of the financial sector-banks, insurance companies, credit organizations, investment and pension funds, mobile operators and the Internet, took part in the seminar.

The territorial representative of Kaspersky Lab in Armenia and Georgia Armen Karapetyan opened the event. The leading specialist of Kaspersky Lab conducted the seminar, the pre-sales support engineer Alexei Gorelkin. The agenda included the themes "Modern threats specific to the financial sector" and "Solutions for the full protection of financial institutions". Alexey Gorelkin also held a business game "Inactive Cyber-Simulation."

The seminar participants had an opportunity to discuss and explain all the issues of interest to them on financial cybersecurity. "The analysis of the last year's cybernecidents shows that Armenia, as the target of cybercrime groups, does not lag behind international trends, which have introduced a robust system and an actual security tool for the structure, too, to monitor the development of modern cyber threats, as they are implemented through the use of new technologies and are increasingly difficult to detect and prevent it.  Nevertheless, Kaspersky Lab is constantly one step ahead of cybercriminals, creating solutions and eliminating as yet unknown Threats that were presented to Armenian specialists during the seminar "A look at financial security." The effectiveness of these decisions is also evidenced by the fact that compared to the similar seminar held last year, a seminar of this year brought together even more participants, and their composition was More representative," said territorial representative of Kaspersky Lab in Armenia and Georgia Armen Karapetyan.

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