The more digitized, the more vulnerable society is to the cyber crimes that cross-cutting countries, industries and people. is growing threat is one of the central objectives of the strategic plan of the Association of Banks of Peruwho is currently on a technical mission in Israel.
The delegation, headed by Miguel Vargas, General Manager of Asbanc, together with the Operations Manager Marcela Aparicio and the Strategic Security Manager, Giovanni Pichling, has held an intense agenda that includes meetings with government authorities, universities, startups and companies related to international level.
During the visit, they also participated in the VII HLS & Cyber 2022 International Meeting, which brought together delegations from 66 countries, more than a hundred ministers, senior officials, police chiefs, seaport and airport authorities, and corporate executives in Tel Aviv. national and multinational companies seeking to learn about the latest advances in the prevention and mitigation of cybercrime.
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The president of the strategic committee for comprehensive security risk management, José Marangunich, who is also security manager of Banco de Crédito del Perú, also participated in this event.
Industry challenges are numerous. As Vargas explains, “currently only half of Peruvian adults have a bank account, so we want to facilitate financial inclusion, offer a safe and satisfactory experience that prevents cyber fraud, and that means making the system more secure. For this reason, we are looking for a centralized identity validation method that works for our sector and that collaborates with the entire country.”
MISSION OBJECTIVES
This technical mission has had several key objectives for the Peruvian financial industry. On the one hand, building strategic alliances and collaboration agreements with the main international actors to guarantee the flow of information that allows the rapid identification of threats and the best available practices. Another objective is the implementation of state-of-the-art technologies and solutions that guarantee the security of financial products and services. As Marcela Aparicio, Asbanc’s operations manager, explains, “we seek to reinforce trust and guarantee the security of our clients, who together carry out more than 9.5 million daily digital transactions in the local financial system.”
Another focus of this tour is education because it is necessary not only to train managerial and technical levels, but also clients and citizens, so that they acquire preventive habits. According to Giovanni Pichling “we need to create awareness at the national level that cybersecurity is collaborative work, where each citizen has a dose of responsibility. The speed with which cybercrime is becoming more sophisticated forces us to train ourselves to address prevention, mitigation, and resilience, which is the ability to quickly recover from an attack.”
The comparative experience and the conversations held with leaders from around the world reaffirm collaborative work between the State, academia and the private sector as a key factor in facing this new scenario. As the General Manager of Asbanc, Miguel Vargas, comments, “we must see ourselves as an ecosystem whose mission is to facilitate education, innovation and technological development in cybersecurity issues for the benefit of the country.”
WHY ISRAEL?
Israel is a world leader in security, financial technology and cybersecurity. It has more than 430 specialized companies, generates more than 6 billion dollars in sales, receives almost 40% of all that is invested in cybersecurity development, and annually produces 65 new companies in the sector, 8 of which manage to reach the unicorn category, that is, be valued at more than a billion dollars.
The visit has taken the delegation to cities as diverse as Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan, Herzlyia and Beer Sheva. In the latter is the nerve center of innovation and development of Israeli cybersecurity, the Cyber Park, which is an infrastructure complex where all the actors of the ecosystem meet: public authorities, research laboratories, universities, startups and multinational innovation centers .
