The Chief Executive Officer of Skye Bank Plc, Tokunbo Abiru, has advocated practical strategies, concerted efforts and close collaboration by technology, Telcos and IT security experts to prevent current proliferation of cloned apps for the safety of smart phone users in the country.

Abiru stated this in his keynote note address on: ëStrategizing against Malicious App Clones’ delivered at 3rd quarter General Meeting of the Nigeria Electronic Fraud Forum (NeFF) held in Lagos to review the activities of the body and work out a more proactive means of mitigating electronic fraud.

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The Skye Bank Boss, who was represented by the Bank’s Executive Director Technology & Services, Innocent Ike noted that “one of the strategies to deal with this menace was the enactment of the Cybercrimes Prohibition, Prevention Act, 2015 which is meant to regulate the cyber security space in the country and provide for the application of stiff penalties for internet infractions”.

Unfortunately, the top Banker was of the opinion that more still needs to be done by all stakeholders, even as he went ahead to outline other steps part of which ìis to ensure that innocent app users never download apps from untrusted third parties adding that “users should always download apps from official app marketplaces like appstore for Apple phones, Google play for Android phones, and windows phone store for Windows phones to dramatically reduce the risk of downloading mobile application malwares”.