Taking its efforts to improve defense against increasing threats from cybercriminals to a new level, UAE Banks Federation (UBF) hosted a “Customer Security Programme” workshop on 16 September, 2018, for banking professionals, in collaboration with SWIFT, the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services.

Held in Abu Dhabi, the workshop attracted more than 100 information security officers, operations and IT infrastructure managers from UBF member banks and financial institutions, as well as SWIFT administrators in the UAE. The event highlighted the rising importance of building a resilient defence against ever-evolving cyber-attacks in the banking and financial industry to safeguard the interests of banks, stakeholders and customers in particular.