MegaFon Cyber Intelligence Platform

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• Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)
• Big Data

2021: Launch of the Cyber Intelligence Platform

MegaFon March 25, 2021 announced the launch of the multifunctional solution "Cyber Intelligence Platform." The platform is designed for predictive work with cyber threats and will allow banks to prevent theft of money from customers' accounts, and for corporate businesses to protect their employees from mobile fraud.

The platform accumulates information about all sources of network attacks on mobile users. The algorithms developed by MegaFon automatically analyze the flow of network events and identify numbers that are at risk of theft of media or information. In particular, algorithms record the spread of links to malware, and by the suspicious nature of the user's behavior, the platform detects infected devices and tracks access to phishing resources.

Automated data collection on the platform accelerates the processing of data by our customers' information security personnel. This helps MegaFon's customers identify and respond to early malicious activity. We are pleased to offer the market this view of managing cyber threats associated with mobile fraud, "says Natalya Taldykina, Director of Corporate Business Development at MegaFon.

The user of the system in the personal account of the "Cyber Intelligence Platform" receives operational reports on his pool of numbers - his employees, users of corporate communications, or customers who have agreed to receive information about fraud prevention.

Information updates as threats are detected, so companies can quickly contact their customers or employees, warn them of potential dangers. banks If you receive information about a threat against a client, you can suspend a suspicious transaction and contact the client for additional confirmation.

Thanks to big data analytics, the cyber intelligence platform detects the suspicious use of mobile commerce services and payments, for example, to withdraw funds after embezzlement using social engineering. The platform algorithms developed by MegaFon allow you to identify specific mobile wallets and numbers of subscribers involved in dubious financial transactions. Banks receive a signal about possible suspicious activities and can block transactions, "says Sergey Khrenov, director of fraud prevention and income loss at MegaFon.

An up-to-date list of identified phishing Internet resources is also available to platform users, which is regularly replenished and helps in the work of company security services.

A separate platform functionality is designed for online services and allows you to identify unscrupulous users who use SIM cards for mass automated registration for the purpose of fraudulent transactions. For example, retail or car sharing services will be able to identify "wholesale" users of bonus points and discounts, social networks - to fight the creation of fake accounts and twists. Such accounts are also often used to register electronic wallets, spam mailings to other users of services, fraud using social engineering methods on free ad sites.