Mastercard collaborates with LankaPay to strengthen cyber-security infrastructure of financial services sector

From left: LankaPay Deputy CEO Dinuka Perera, Chairman Dr. Kenneth De Zilwa, CEO Channa De Silva, Mastercard Country Manager, Sri Lanka and Maldives Sandun Hapugoda and Mastercard Sri Lanka Director Mahesha Amarasuriya 

• FinCSIRT will leverage RiskRecon by Mastercard to boost cyber posture of financial institutions.

Mastercard has partnered with LankaPay, Sri Lanka’s national payment network, to further strengthen the cyber-security infrastructure of the country’s financial services sector via the Financial Sector Computer Security Incident Response Team (FinCSIRT). 

LankaPay established FinCSIRT in 2014 to safeguard the financial services sector from potential cyber-security threats through a combined effort by the Central Bank of Sri Lanka, the Sri Lanka Banks’ Association, and the Sri Lanka Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Centre. As part of this collaboration, FinCSIRT will leverage RiskRecon, an advanced cyber-security solution by Mastercard, to further help financial institutions (FIs) safeguard operations and ensure consumer data protection.

RiskRecon by Mastercard empowers organisations to gain deep, continuous risk insight by evaluating over 40 security criteria across nine domains. It also helps in streamlining the vendor cyber risk management process, thereby allowing organisations to select new vendors faster by prioritising their third-party assessments based on RiskRecon-rated vendor performance.

This powerful solution will allow financial institutions in Sri Lanka to access detailed reports on their overall cyber risk profile. Further, they will be able to compare risk performance ratings of multiple vendors simultaneously, enabling them to select the service provider which best meets their risk performance requirements.

LankaPay Chairman Dr. Kenneth De Zilwa said: “In a rapidly evolving digital environment, it is vital that the security of the financial ecosystem is prioritised. We take cyber security threats very seriously and have established the FinCSIRT many years ago to support the financial sector from potential cyber security threats. This partnership with Mastercard highlights LankaPay’s determination to further strengthen the cyber-security defence systems of member institutions, ensuring the integrity of their operations and protection of customer data.”

Mastercard Country Manager, Sri Lanka and Maldives Sandun Hapugoda said: “With the growth of digital financial services and proliferation of online transactions, it’s important that financial institutions in Sri Lanka adopt robust cyber-security measures. Mastercard’s collaboration with LankaPay demonstrates its commitment to strengthening the country’s digital ecosystem, paving the way for a secure and resilient digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere.”