DFS Security Recommendations

The ITU DFS Security Recommendations provide a framework for regulators, telcos, and DFS providers to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of digital financial services.

The recommendations are as follows

1. Recommendations for regulators to mitigate SS7 vulnerabilities: Details on the recommendations for DFS regulators and mobile network operators to mitigate the effects of SS7 vulnerabilities.

2. Security recommendations to protect against DFS SIM risks and SIM swap fraud: Guidance and recommendations for regulators and providers to mitigate SIM vulnerabilities

3. Template for a Model MOU between a Telecommunications Regulator and Central Bank on Digital Financial Services Security: Includes clauses that address the security of DFS that regulators should consider for adoption or incorporate into existing MOUs.

4. Mobile Application Security Best practices: best practices for mobile financial services application security that DFS regulators can adopt as guidelines.

5. DFS consumer competency framework: The DFS Consumer Competency Framework provides guidance to policymakers, national regulators, and DFS providers when developing consumer awareness and literacy programmes as part of the DFS/financial inclusion strategy.