Technical Assistance for Strengthening the Fight against Money Laundering, Turkey

Provision of Technical Assistances to achieve the objective of enhancing the institutional capacity of MASAK in order to fight against money laundering efficiently in the framework of harmonization with the EU Acquis concerning money laundering, establishment of the technical framework and technical infrastructure.

The main components of the project are:

Component 1 - Security Policy: This component includes organisation wide security risk analysis and risk assessment, preparation of security policy and standards at all levels (General, ICT systems including HW, NW, SW) monitoring and audit of implementation.
Component 2 - Control and Inspection: Technical assistance in implementation of hardware and network and relevant software and equipment. Assisting preparation of evaluation criteria, controlling, testing, guidance on inspection and acceptance.
Component 3 - Database and Software : Technical assistance in implementation of all the software components including COTS, database and custom developed applications. Configuration and customisation of COTS, integration of all the software items, verification & validation of software development life cycle and outputs, database configuration, security & performance, back-up strategy and disaster recovery, data migration and integration.
Component 4 - Training: The training component covers the planning, preparation and co-ordination of the training, the training of the MASAK experts, IT Training courses to IT staff and evaluation and certification.