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In the last few years, the Internet and its number
of users have been growing exponentially. It’s amazing to think
that in 1992 there were just 50 Web sites. Now, according to Secretary
of Commerce William M. Daley, 65,000 Web sites are being added every
hour. Because users can interact with so much information, companies
are conducting business, like banking, over the Internet. With banking
being done on the Internet, many questions have come up about security.
Through Cryptographic Technology, information is protected as it
is transmitted across the Internet. This technology is a form of
scrambling the data as it is sent.
Community Bank uses 128-bit encryption, the highest
form reserved primarily for financial institutions. As an example,
to break the coding on 128-bit encryption, it would take a hacker
10,700,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years — provided he could
harness the power of a 1,000 CPUs, and type 1,000 characters per
second, 24 hours a day. Other security tools are available to ensure
the integrity of your data: firewalls and filtering routers are
used to secure computers from Internet access, and a “trusted”
operating system is employed to protect the information from both
internal and external threats.
For added security, each customer is required to determine
his or her own unique ID and Personal Identification Number. ID
and PIN guessing is deterred by locking a user out of the system
for 24 hours, following three unsuccessful attempts. These are just
some of the full range of Internet security tools we use. These
layers of security work together to make sure that all information
transmitted between you and Community Bank is both secure and authentic.
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