CFLW Cyber Strategies and TAU Express partners to combat high-tech financial crime

Recently, CFLW Cyber Strategies BV (CFLW) partners with Singapore’s TAU Express Pte Ltd (TAU) to develop new technologies for combating high-tech financial crime. This collaboration combines CFLW’s strengths in open-source intelligence (OSINT) solutions such as dark web monitoring with TAU’s AI-enabled Intelligence Analytics capabilities.

CFLW, founded in 2019 and based in Holland, Netherlands, delivers solutions for keeping security in the digital transformation and navigating through the cyber-physical, in areas such as disrupting dark web and virtual assets abuse, strengthening cybersecurity in emergent technologies, and advancing human capital by research and development.

Whereas, TAU Express founded in 2018 as a R&D spinoff from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU), specialises in using AI for intelligence analytics to facilitate research and analysis of emerging threats and trends in the cyber landscape.

Dr. Mark van Staalduinen, founder and managing director of CFLW and Professor Lam Kwok Yan, co-founder of TAU Express, shares insights on their partnership Project BIANCO, an acronym for Breaking Illicit Virtual Asset Networks with Crypto analytics Open sources, which aims to tackle financial crimes involving cryptocurrencies or other virtual assets.

They also talk about:

How the collaboration started.
The main types of cyber crimes committed.
The dark web and how it facilitates cybercrimes.
What the current state of trust in the digital economy and some of the current technologies being utilised to increase cybersecurity and accountability.
How Project BIANCO can help promote trusted transactions in the digital economy and the technologies being utilised to augment the existing tools for customer due diligence and transaction monitoring processes.
How the Project BIANCO can supplement blockchain analytics solutions already available in the market.