Is Direct.com Web Banking secure?
Yes. Direct Federal uses a multi-tiered security policy that governs all aspects of Web Banking and Bill Payment. • The first tier is Data Source Security. All of your data is stored on a database at Direct Federal and at no time does anyone from the outside world have access to this database. Any and all requests for data must pass through two distinct validation and control centers. • The second tier is Data Transmission Security. Secure Socket Layering (SSL) protects all transmissions between you and Direct Federal via the Internet. SSL utilizes authentication and encryption technology. Encryption takes meaningful text and numbers and scrambles them into numerical nonsense before transmitting them across the Internet. This process uses complex mathematical formulas to create a key that is used to translate the numerical nonsense back into meaningful data. There are billions of potential keys and a different one is used for each on-line session with Web Banking. The key used is estab
