India tightens outsourcing security after fraud allegations
India’s software outsourcing strategic development plan to introduce a national screen out program for employees with intention to enhance clients’ systems security.
The program is currently under planning and implementation by the National Association of Software and Service Companies. The prerequisite for above actions became the detention of three ex-employees of an Indian Citibank serving outsourcer accounts, accused of allegedly poaching $322,000 from US customers accounts by stealing their phone numbers and requesting account details from them.
Screen out program by NassCom will enable to register details and track all existing or potential staff in India’s burgeoning software development and outsourcing industries in a shared industry specific database.
Employees personal details can then be checked and validated by an agency, and at every next job application the prospect employer will be able to check their backgrounds for payment.
Providing the higher level of staff security, some leading Indian IT companies had to counter the menace of acts of terror from regional separatist groups.
Not so long ago, two largest Bangalore-based outsourcers were constrained to evacuate their corporate headquarters as a result of bomb hoaxes. The separatists consider IT services companies to be the perfect economic targets for their strikes and intimidation acts.