{"id":614,"date":"2011-03-10T13:25:36","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T18:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=614"},"modified":"2011-03-12T22:34:15","modified_gmt":"2011-03-13T03:34:15","slug":"rapport-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/rapport-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Rapport Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arden asks about additional bank security
\n<\/strong>One of my bank accounts (I wish I had some money in them, I would share) \t\tintroduced a security program Called Rapport Security. Supposedly it can \t\tbe used to secure any website. Is it a good thing to use as extra security? \t\tIs it really needed?<\/p>\n

Our Answer
\n<\/strong>According to what we’ve been able to find out, this software acts to \t\tprevent so-called “Man In The Middle” attacks. A man in the middle would \t\tbe someone who is monitoring traffic between your computer and the site \t\tyou’re on and intercepting the transmissions between your bank’s computer \t\tand your computer. But since, as far as we know, all banks use secure servers \t\tand the data sent between your computer and the banks is already encrypted, \t\twe’re not sure how much good this extra-layer of protection would do.<\/p>\n

According to Tusteer’s Web site:<\/p>\n

“Rapport is a service for online financial, \t\tretail, healthcare and government institutions that wish to protect their \t\tcustomers\u2019 transactions being tampered with or Privately Identifiable Information \t\t(PII) being stolen whilst connected (or trying to connect) to the institution\u2019s \t\twebsite.<\/p>\n

The Rapport service includes a lightweight browser security plug-in, as \t\twell as cloud-based analysis and reporting services. The lightweight browser \t\tsecurity plug-in is installed in-flow when the customer first visits the \t\tWeb site. This one-time process takes a few seconds and is very similar \t\tto a Flash viewer (also a browser plug-in) installation. Customers who have \t\talready downloaded the Rapport plug-in from another Trusteer partner do \t\tnot need to download anything!<\/p>\n

Rather than try to clean malware from the desktop, \t\tRapport acts like a vault inside the browser protecting Web pages downloaded \t\tto the browser, as well as data entered by customers in response to those \t\tpages. Malware cannot read or alter these pages or the information customers \t\tenter into them. PII, transactions, and Web site integrity is preserved.<\/p>\n

Rapport prevents redirect and fraudulent Web site attacks through strong \t\tauthentication of trusted Web sites before releasing sensitive information \t\tfrom the vault. By securing browser data in the vault and then ensuring \t\tthat outbound data is sent only to trusted sites, Rapport eliminates any \t\tcriminal entry point….”<\/p>\n

This doesn’t secure all Web sites, even if \t\tyou install the toolbar. It only secures Web sites who are using the Rapport \t\tSecurity service. If you’re confused – so are we. It sounds like a bit of \t\toverkill to us. Nothing beats common sense things like not clicking links \t\tin emails from financial sites or site which require you to enter personal \t\tand confidential information; or having and keeping good antivirus and antispyware \t\tprograms on your computer and keeping them up-to-date.<\/p>\n

Since the Rapport consumer toolbar only works \t\twith sites that have the Rapport Security system installed, the extra layer \t\tof protection it would afford would depend entirely on the number of Web \t\tsites that actually use the Rapport Security system. And right now, it seems, \t\tnot many do.<\/p>\n

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