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Kaspersky has launched new service
packages designed for businesses
working in the Blockchain industry and
crypto economy.
Token offering (ICO/ STO) projects and
cryptocurrency exchanges are now
offered tailored services such as smart
contract code review, application and
website security assessment, security
awareness training, protection against
phishing and incident response.
In addition to these services, Kaspersky
also provides crypto exchanges with
fraud and money laundering prevention
and targeted attack detection.
Even though Blockchain was initially
seen as a secure technology, there are
now various threats and cybersecurity
risks around the crypto economy.
In the last two years, Kaspersky experts
have become aware of phishing copies
of a popular ICO website, targeted
attacks on crypto exchange companies,
adware intended to steal cryptocurrency
and other attack vectors.
To help Blockchain and crypto
businesses overcome these challenges,
Kaspersky now has two service offerings
which consider the specifics of how such
business models work and the lifecycle of
token offerings and crypto exchanges.
For token offering projects, Kaspersky
services include the following:
• Smart contract code review
identifies flaws and undeclared
features, as well as finds
discrepancies between stated in
the supporting documentations and
smart-contract business logic
• Application security assessment
helps a startup team analyse the
state of security of applications (be it
a decentralised or a traditional one)
developed by a startup
To provide a high level of protection for
crypto exchanges, Kaspersky offers a
tailored service pack, which includes:
Riaan Badenhorst, General Manager at
Kaspersky Africa
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• Application security assessment
to help owners of crypto exchanges
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detect critical bugs and address
them before they cause damage
• Penetration testing to help a crypto
exchange identify weak spots in their
systems and to ensure that hackers
won’t penetrate them easily
• User account takeover prevention
to detect attempts from criminals to
get access to user wallets
Kaspersky’s Blockchain security
services also include phishing protection
to provide alerts when phoney copies
of crypto exchanges and ICOs are
generated, incident response service
and cybersecurity awareness training to
improve the overall level of cybersecurity
hygiene so that a company will not fall
victim to social engineering attacks.
For crypto exchanges that have
basic cybersecurity measures in
place, Kaspersky provides additional
enhancements. These include helping
to spot potentially fraudulent Blockchain
transactions to prevent money
laundering and automatically identify and
respond to targeted attacks.
Even though
Blockchain was
initially seen as a
secure technology,
there are now
various threats
and cybersecurity
risks around the
crypto economy.
For those crypto exchanges that have
built an internal security operation
centre, Kaspersky offers threat data
feeds, along with information security
training and awareness programmes
for security operation teams so they
can enhance their forensic and
detection capabilities.
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