Standard Chartered Bank and Access Bank have both emerged the most secured mobile responsive websites in Nigeria, in the Banking Category of the Annual Davebrook Mobile (ADAM) Website Review of quoted and unquoted companies in Nigeria.
This was disclosed on Friday by Davebrook Digital PR in a statement made available to media partner organisations in Lagos, at the end of a month-long review of the mobile platforms of the 21 Money Deposit Banks, Central Bank of Nigeria and JaizBank.
The report, designed to facilitate strategic review of the current mobile website platforms, with a view to increase security of existing and future mobile communication and transaction channels of the banks and other organisations with mobile money transfer platforms.
According to DavebrookPR chief strategist, Oluwaseun Adesida, the exercise was motivated by the desire to encourage Nigerian banks to increase connectivity security and mobile online experience of customers using mobile communication and transaction channels.
The research revealed the banks with delightful online journey experience for customers include GTBank, Wema Bank, Access Bank and Standard Chartered notched the experience higher than the rest with aesthetics that gets the site visitor seeking for more through optically appealing navigators deployed over Mobile complaint or Mobile Responsive websites.
Other banks in these category includes Diamond Bank, Heritage Bank, Enterprise Bank, JaizBank, Keystone, Sterling Bank, Union Bank, Unity Bank and FirstBank.
This is part of the mission statement of Davebrook PR, which is “To develop communication platforms that guarantee speed, accuracy and businesses security. Davebrook is ready to support the Banks and other organisations to improve online journey experience and security of all online communication channels,” Adesida said.
He revealed that research, which ended March 05, 2015 revealed that apart from the mobile website platforms of Access Bank, Fidelity Bank, Skye Bank and Standard Chartered, all the remaining banks mobile websites have unencrypted connections but with internet banking pages which have encrypted connections.
Encrypted internet banking pages, provides secure connection for online financial transaction for all customers making use of the internet banking platform. The chief strategist, emphasised that the aim of the research was to send encourage financial institutions to extend encryption security to all online touch points aside the internet banking page.
This is to prevent the possibility of attackers exploiting loop hole in pages without encrypted connection, which might expose customers to identity theft while accessing the banks mobile website platforms.
A website with a connection that is not encrypted means that information sent over the internet through such pages can be seen by other people while it is in transit, especially when using wireless connections which applies to mobile devices.
The next review will be in the Third Quarter of 2015, by which time it expected that unranked financial institutions would have become mobile responsive and more secured.
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