TCMA ANNUAL REPORT 2018

Information Technology Document Management System Improvements were achieved in performance and reporting through hardware and software upgrades made to the Document Management System that is used for the Association’s information, document and process management needs. A total of 4,394 new documents were added to the Document Management System during 2018, which brought the total number of documents kept on the system to 88,564 as at 31 December 2018. Corporate Website The infrastructure and content of the website were constantly updated. During 2018, our website was visited 255,583 times by users from ten different countries, namely Turkey, United States of America, England, France, India, Germany, Canada, Switzerland, Italy and Spain. Member Management System Active since November 2012, the Member Management System collected various data about intermediary institutions, and produced periodic and annual reports. The software development phase of the reporting module for comprehensive database queries was finalized. Software for Collecting and Reporting of Leveraged Trading Transactions Under the Capital Markets Board of Turkey’s Investment Services Communiqué, our Association was charged with collecting the prices and the spread announced by intermediary institutions for leveraged trading transactions, and with processing them using statistical methods and making them public. As part of this task, necessary security updates were made to Project KAS in 2018, which was designed for collecting and publicly disclosing the relevant data. Leveraged trading prices of intermediary institutions outside the standard deviation, which are derived from Project KAS were published weekly on our website. Security Scanning The software and hardware vulnerabilities of the data center were identified based on the report that resulted from the penetration/attack tests. Necessary steps were taken in line with the suggested solutions devised. Infrastructure Updates and Security Within the frame of Data Center infrastructure updates, servers, virtualization, replication and security software were upgraded while firewall and other hardware equipment were updated. Based on the awareness that technological transformation is the key to the future, we closely monitored the global innovations and strengthened our infrastructure. 49 TCMA 2018 ANNUAL REPORT