Combat Cyber Risks with secure and privacy-compliant Web Application on Azure
CYBERA’s mission is to prevent financially motivated cybercrime. As a scalable and secure information platform, it serves in particular the exchange between banks and law enforcement agencies. For this purpose, CYBERA develops effective technology solutions for victims, police authorities, banks, fintechs and crypto companies around the world.
Initial Situation
The most common cybercrime attacks (online frauds) all involve financial transactions. Law enforcement experience, research and organizations such as Interpol, recommend the fastest possible and global response to increase the chance of blocking such stolen assets. This response is enabled by the CYBERA platform for victims of cybercrime. In addition, reported data on cybercriminals is transferred to secure watchlists and made available to prevent bank transactions and other payment intermediaries.
Innfactory AG validated the new platform by developing an MVP. isolutions accompanied the transfer to the MMP and the implementation of a secure store for the safe storage of bank account information as well as the optimization and addition of API management to the app. The software developers from isolutions had the appropriate know-how to realize a fast and efficient solution and were accordingly ideally suited for the implementation.
Solution
After several months of in-house development, Innofactory AG commissioned isolutions to shape the partially developed MVP into an MMP. On behalf of Innofactory AG, a platform was implemented as a web app based on Microsoft technologies. The platform runs in the Azure Cloud on multiple stages and is multilingual. The current releases are rolled out via a modern CI/CD pipeline. There is a performant API for the CYBERA platform, through which banks can register independently and find the corresponding documentation versioned. Thanks to the Azure API management used, the app can be continuously developed further, while existing connected partners (e.g. banks) check their transactions via API in parallel. The app was developed with high security standards and several external audits.
Benefits
- A suspicious case can be checked, reported and recorded in the system by any person or partner.
- Affected persons who have already lost money can file a criminal complaint online, which can be further processed by the police institutions.
- This leads to time savings and a lower hurdle for criminal charges, as well as a higher success factor.
- For partners such as banks, a secure and privacy-compliant search in the pool of suspicious cases (watchlist) is possible manually or via API to check transactions before execution. This can prevent money from being lost during a transfer (prevention of cybercrime).