National Crime Agency to feed UK banks real-time cyber-alerts

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://news.techworld.com/security/3574033/national-crime-agency-to-feed-uk-banks-real-time-cyber-alerts/

By John E. Dunn
Techworld
26 September 2014

Britain’s banks are to start using a new alerting system that will make it 
easier for a range of police and government agencies to warn its members 
of of cyberattacks and frauds in real time.

Going live in early 2015 in partnership with BAE Systems Applied 
Intelligence, the Financial Crime Alerts Service (FCAS) cloud portal will 
be anchored by the National Crime Agency (NCA) with 11 other domestic and 
international organisations also feeding this information.

The focus of the online system will be cyberattacks and electronic crime 
on banks but other threat types will include terrorist financing, money 
laundering, financial fraud, and strategic analysis.

Bank staff will be able to run custom searches through the cloud system as 
well as receive automatic alerts when specific types of threat daya enter 
the system.

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