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Financial Analytics: Science and Experience
 

Improving the information security of electronic payments in commercial banks of Russia

Vol. 8, Iss. 31, AUGUST 2015

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Received: 2 July 2015

Accepted: 13 July 2015

Available online: 4 September 2015

Subject Heading: MONITORING AND PREDICTION OF BANKING RISKS

JEL Classification: 

Pages: 38-49

Markova O.M. Financial University under Government of Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Federation
markova1310@bk.ru

Importance Considering the changes in requirements to the information security of banking transactions, the research overviews important amendments to legislative regulation of electronic payments, and new models for managing security systems, which allow mitigating risks of possible losses when making electronic payments.
     Objectives The research strives to reflect the changes in legislative regulation of electronic payments assuming that the Bank of Russia's standard Ensuring the Information Security of Entities Operating in the Banking System of the Russian Federation is applied. The article discloses areas for improving the electronic-payment security management systems on the basis of payment security quality management, thus increasing the security of the credit institution in terms of information technologies and making the banking business more sustainable.
     Methods The research analyzes various aspects of information security in banking, and determines the most effective systems for managing the information security in banking.
     Results I present my proposals for improving the information security and ways to keep it in commercial banks. For this, it is necessary to identify information and technological resources to be protected, potential threats and data leakage channels; assess susceptibility and risks of information considering threats and data leakage channels; determine requirements to the protection system; to choose data protection means and their characteristics; organize and enforce the measures, methods and means of protection; control the data protection system integrity.
     Conclusions and Relevance I conclude that tightened economic sanctions considerably increase requirements to information security of electronic payments, thus making the banking business in Russia more reliable and safe.

Keywords: management system, information security, electronic payments, automation, banking system

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