Ali,
It's also time to put professional blame squarely where it lies.
Any system tasked with moving *huge* sums of money and that does not come with at least Two-Factor authentication be *default* is either:
1. A very, very bad implementation
2. Intentionally left unsecure to allow looting.
Blaming users & ethics in our users is just looking for scapegoats. Citibank, Stanchart & other Financial Institutions do not rely on user ethics when using their online banking platforms. You key in your password, for every transaction, you confirm using your 2FA Code, ensuring it's only you, or someone you gave your physical 2FA card that can authenticate that transaction.
And that's before you put in anti-laundering functionality, which should catch most of those transactions dead in their tracks if well implemented. E.g before payment of sums above KSH 100m cross-check on company registration date, if less than 1 year, flag! Common addresses, Directors btn different firms.
Online payments in Kenya have been with us since the early 2000s, why is it we've never heard complaints from the Banks that billions are being lost through basic identity fraud similar to IFMIS.
Don't blame the Kenyan people, blame lies squarely with the Systems we have put in place.
Waithaka Ngigi
Alliance Technologies
www.at.co.ke
From: Ali Hussein via kictanet Sent: Friday, December 2, 2016 5:33 AM To: Ngigi Waithaka Reply To: KICTAnet ICT Policy Discussions Cc: Ali Hussein Subject: [kictanet] KISERO: Kenya’s corruption tsars have perfected looting through Ifmis - Daily Nation |
Listers
Related to to the discussion of 'reigning in' quacks in the ICT Sector how do you explain the fiasco that is IFMIS?
Except from the article:-
In theory, the Ifmis system we have is based on Oracle E-Business Suite, an accounting package developed by Oracle of the USA. In reality, what is in place is a product of conspiracies between crafty government officials and local rent-seeking software merchants.
Through highly inflated and ill-conceived customisation and re-engineering projects, the merchants have colluded with public officials to create a mongrel of the original Oracle E-Business Suite.
This is the system at the heart of corruption in the public sector.
So if we were to talk this discussion a step further:-
1. The customization of an Oracle E-Business Suite cannot be done by a 'quack' who isn't a Certified Oracle Software Engineer.
2. The customization must be approved by the client and mapped with the business processes mutually agreed by the vendor and the customer. In this case the government.
A pig is a pig even if you apply lipstick on it. Let's call this what it is - Corruption. Period. Perpetuated in this case by the client and using qualified IT Professionals. We in the industry must call out the ones who collude to fleece this country instead of chasing a red herring in the name of 'quacks'!
Ali Hussein
Principal
Hussein & Associates
+254 0713 601113
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