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We are also thinking about a "speech-to- raw data. Instead, we are processing it Platform" which will serve the insurance
text" system. People involved in accidents and sharing the result of that process. And companies, the agents and the experts.
will not have to enter information manually; while sharing it, we are very careful about This platform will be both an access and
they will be able to detail the accident only the security. With this in mind, we have a sharing platform. The Agents and the
by talking. We are continuing to work to- launched "SBM Transfer" application for experts will connect to SBM applications
wards making the application popular in the the secure data sharing. through S-Cloud. Therefore, both insur-
upcoming terms. ance com¬panies and the agents will con-
Could you briefly inform us about the nect to SBM and its applications securely
SBM launched a new application to get activities of SÎSEB, one of the sub-unit and with high performance through cloud
quote for the traffic (Motor) insurance. of SBM? technology. Using cloud applications will
Could you inform us about the details of enable us to reach the certain standards,
the application and the developments Insurance Fraud Prevention Bureau (SiS- IT standards and agent applications in
about its usage rates? EB) established in 2015 under the or- particular; while reducing the applica-
ganisationof Insurance Information and tion development costs in the long run.
Since SBM's main mission is to develop ap- Monitoring Center (SBM), within the After this, everyone will not be forming
plications that makes life easier for the con- purpose of detecting the organized fraud- their own solutions anymore. In summary,
sumers, increases their trust in insurance, ulent activities that cannot be detected by we are designing a secure, reliable, and
and accelerates the insurance services over- using the data of insurance company holds high-performance cloud ecosystem for the
all; we launched this application last year and preventing the financial losses in the insurance sector.
that enables consumers to get quotes for the insurance sector. Our teams are in con-
traffic (Motor) insurance. In this way, con- stant contact with the insurance compa- We are increasing the Data Maturity
sumers are able to make their choices much nies. I believe that, we will become more Level of the insurance companies
faster by getting the quotations of all the and more efficient in this area with each
companies that issues traffic (Motor) pol- passing day and make significant contri- Another project of SBM is the 'Data Ma-
icies comparatively at the same time.. The butions to the sector. turity Project', the aim of which is to max-
application can be used in any kind of mo- imize the maturity of the data collected
bile devices. Could you tell us more about your pro- through the existing structure. We have
jects? conducted pilot phases with a few insur-
SBM archives and organizes the data and ance companies for the project. We will
information of insurance sector in many With the enforcement of the Personal try to detect the level of the quality of the
areas. What can you tells us about your Data Protection Law (KVKK), the secu- data transferred by the insurance compa-
information security policy? How do you rity has become more important in terms nies. We will analyze whether they have
protect the data of policyholders and in- of the sectors that collects data.. That's conveyed their data in time, with good
surance companies? why we have begun working for a project quality etc. In short we will look into the
that will initially establish secure and maturity level of the data they shared. We
Harboring the policyholder data, which is closed-circuit connection lines with insur- aim to increase that level into the mean-
the most important source of information ance companies with the aim of protect- ingful standards.
for the insurance companies, SBM stores ing the data we collect and make it more
all the data within the global standards secure. With this new project, secure and At the same time, we are also working on
and attaches great importance to the data closed-circuit connection lines will be es- the Joint Data Model Project which will
security. In addition to all manner of tech- tablished between SBM and the insurance go live at the end of 2018. We believe it to
nological in-vestments, we have made all companies over a MPLS cloud to be allo- be an important project for gathering in-
the necessary process-related and organ- cated for SBM. Thanks to this connection formation security and standards under a
izational investments to achieve it. As a cloud that will be installed specially for single model. We will start by giving each
result of periodical audits and inspections, the insurance companies, SBM services policyholder a SBM reference number;
we get certified if our information security will be provided in a healthier and faster we will define the relation between this
processes works properly. Our employees manner. As a significant step towards the reference number and the citizen number
are trained in this field whenever necessary. data security, this project will establish of the policyholder, which will help the
We have recently restructured our Physical communication security and continuity system recognize this person through this
Data Center. In addition, we have begun between us and the insurance companies; connection. Moreover, insurance rating of
working towards developing a platform that as well as accelerating the connection ser- the policyholder will be calculated from a
conducts cyber-attack analysis. This system vices. single point in a way that encompasses all
collects all the data and foresees the attacks insurance lines.
in advance. We will implement this project We are establishing an insuretech plat-
as soon as possible as we believe it is highly form We believe that in addition to providing
important in terms of the data security. security, this significant project that will
As SBM, we are designing a new world go live within 2018, will reduce the ap-
On the other hand, our policy is to share the in terms of accessing information and plication development costs for both SBM
information, not the data itself. This means services through the S-Cloud project. and the insurance companies.
that we are sensitive about not sharing the We call this environment "Insuretech
Zeynep Tütüncü / zeynept@bestyayincilik.com