INETCO thrives on helping financial institutions deliver an amazing customer experience through optimized transaction performance, faster detection of transaction-level fraud and maximized business value from payment intelligence. Our core competency lies in our ability to decode a wide variety of payment protocols on-the-fly, making comprehensive transaction data ready for real-time analysis.

A majority of companies are moving towards a work-from-home model in an effort to reduce costs and improve operational agility. However, along with these advantages, a remote workforce brings up numerous security concerns. Download this e-book to learn how to secure your network and safely support a remote workforce.

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a suite of cloud computing services for deploying, managing, and monitoring applications. A critical part of deploying reliable applications is securing your infrastructure. Google Cloud Audit Logs record the who, where, and when for activity within your environment, providing a breadcrumb trail that administrators can use to monitor access and detect potential threats across your resources (e.g., storage buckets, databases, service accounts, virtual machines).

APIs are stable, until they aren’t. We talk about that often at Bearer. If you control the APIs, it gets easier, but with third-party APIs and integrations it can be more difficult to predict when an outage or incident is about to happen.

Once an attacker has established access and pivoted around to the point of gathering the necessary data, they will work on exfiltration of that data. Not all malware will reach this stage. Ransomware, for example, usually has no interest in exfiltrating data. As with the Collection tactic, there’s little guidance on how to mitigate an attacker exfiltrating data from the enterprise.

Over the last few weeks, most organisations have had to transition to enable their employees to work remotely. The key focus has been on business continuity during this trying time. Unfortunately, business continuity isn’t so easy. Keeping the day-to-day operations of the business running has been one of the hardest IT challenges that most organisations have faced in the last decade. It’s one for which many organisations might not have had a plan in place.

Welcome to the final installment of our 3-part series featuring recommendations to help financial institutions (FIs) navigate the impact of COVID-19 on their payments business. While we have previously focused on providing tips around managing the surge in online and mobile transactions, as well as how to combat the increase in card-not-present fraud, this blog will focus on how to drive payments revenue and provide an exceptional customer experience.

When COVID-19 caused a surge in online and mobile transactions, INETCO needed to quickly identify bottlenecks that were preventing its clients’ customers from accessing their bank accounts and making payments. Bijan Sanii, President, CEO and Co-founder, says INETCO looked at all real-time transactions to identify where every transaction was “getting stuck,” ensuring the stability of customers’ payment transactions across channels, such as mobile, online, ATMs and retail.