Internet Security
Pierce Commercial Bank provides a secure environment for Internet Banking. Listed below are security measures enforced to protect your Internet-based banking transactions:Secure Communications
Data is encrypted as it travels to and from your PC. Encryption is accomplished through a 128 bit “Secure Sockets Layer,” the de facto standard for data encryption on the Internet. This means unauthorized individuals cannot decipher your sensitive financial information.
Secure Log-In
User IDs and passwords are stored on our bank’s computer, isolated from the Internet, where they cannot be accessed or downloaded by anyone on the Internet. In addition, because user passwords can vary from four to eight characters, the chance of randomly guessing a password is less than one in 1,000,000,000,000. (That’s 1,000 billion!)
Secure Environment
Our computer system does not connect directly to the Internet. It is isolated from the network via a “firewall” – a software and hardware product that defines, controls and limits the access that “outside” computers have to the bank’s computer. This firewall subscribes to the standards set by the NCSA (National Compute Security Association). In other words, use of the firewall allows only authenticated bank customers or administrators to send or receive transactions through it.
Security Reviews
We provide continuous monitoring and auditing of all transactions originating from or outbound to the Internet. We operate with all the rules and regulations of the banking and bank security as set forth by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. We are committed to working with our communications providers to produce the safest operating environment possible for our customers and will take advantage of evolving security enhancements.
