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Online Security
Riverside Bank understands that the security of your personal and account
information is important to you. We also understand that our continued
success as a financial institution relies on both our ability to offer
banking services to you in a secure manner as well as your responsibility in
keeping any access codes, passwords or PINs secure. To assist us in offering
these Web-based banking services in a secure manner, we employ a number of
measures, which are described below. These measures allow us, among other
benefits, to properly authenticate your identity when you access these
services and protect your information as it traverses the Internet between
your PC and Riverside Bank.
Log-In protection for the end user
Every end user must privately maintain a combination of a password and
Log-In ID. Because the end user is assigned the original password by the
bank administrator, Riverside Online requires the end user to change the
password once logged onto the system and before any transactions can be
requested. This requires the end user to establish an absolutely private
password. In case the password is lost or forgotten the administrator will
be able to reset a default password for the end user once Riverside Bank has
confirmed your identity. The Bank does not have access to your password and
therefore is unable to retrieve your password.
Three (3) strikes and you're out
If an unauthorized person attempts entry into an end user’s account by
trying to guess a password, Riverside Online will disable the ID on the
third incorrect attempt, thus invalidating the Login combination. If you
accidentally activate this security feature by unintentionally mis-keying a
password three times, you would need to call Riverside Bank to reestablish
the password for that account. For example, a common mistake made by the end
user is having the CAPS-LOCK on while typing in a password.
To further protect you, a timeout feature is used. This feature will
automatically log you out of your current financial service session after an
idle 15-minute period on our site.
Browser Security
Riverside Bank also requires the use of secure browsers to protect you while
you access our online financial services. More specifically, the personal
and account information that flows back and forth between your PC and
Riverside Bank must be encrypted while in transit – secure browsers are how
we achieve this level of protection. Encryption is the process of scrambling
information (typically for data transmission) so that it can only be
reassembled in its original clear text format by someone who has the correct
encryption key to do so. When used between you and Riverside Bank, this
technology encrypts your personal information as you send it to us, which
only Riverside Bank can decrypt. Likewise, when we send personal or account
information to you, this technology encrypts it, which only you can decrypt.
This is possible through a 128 bit secure server (certified by VeriSign) so
that no unauthorized individuals can read or decipher the data.
Our server does not connect directly to the Internet
Our server is isolated from the network via a "firewall". All requests to
the server are filtered through a router and firewall before they are
permitted access to the server. A router is a piece of hardware that works
in conjunction with the firewall to block and direct traffic coming to the
server. The router and firewall define and limit access that "outside"
computers have to the Riverside Bank server. |
