Bank of Russia receives Runet Award for training children in cyberliteracy
The Financial Sector Computer Emergency Response Team (FinCERT) of the Bank of Russia received the reputable Runet Award in the Children's Runet category for its project Online Financial Literacy Classes for Children on Cyberspace Security.
The awards ceremony took place in Moscow on 12 December 2019.
In 2019, more than 200,000 senior school pupils from various Russian regions attended Bank of Russia online classes on issues of various cyber threats existing on the Internet, secure online payments and ways to counter attempts by social engineering.
‘The Bank of Russia pays considerable attention to ensuring the cyber security of financial consumers and to countering the threats posed by social engineering, among other things. In this context, the educational efforts prove to be very efficient. It is worth noting that we work jointly with our colleagues from the Bank of Russia Service for Consumer Protection and Financial Inclusion,’ said Vadim Uvarov, Director of the Bank of Russia Information Security Department, at the awards ceremony.
The Runet Award is an All-Russian prize in the hi-tech and Internet sphere, encouraging achievements of organisations specialising in IT and e-communications. FinCERT also won this prize in 2017.
