Is Online Bill Pay Secure?
The security and integrity of customers’ accounts and transactions are top priorities for Exchange Bank. The bank introduces online functionality only when we’re fully confident that the systems meet the level of security appropriate to safeguard our customers. Exchange Bank encrypts your Online Bill Pay sessions within our banking servers in order to provide you with the best available form of cryptography commercially available.
The server that stores your Port Washington State Bank account information uses Secure Sockets Layer protocol (SSL). This security encrypts the data sent making it difficult to see your information. In other words, your information is sent in a scrambled format. To ensure that the information is being sent from a secure server, the address will start with https:// rather than http:// and you will notice that you are receiving the information from an SSL server securely if you see a closed padlock at the bottom of your screen like this: Using 128-bit encryption technology scrambling your information, it would take a computer dedicated to doing nothing else many years to unscramble. We strongly encourage Internet Explorer users to use the 128-bit high encryption pack option for the strongest security available. Internet Explorer High Encryption Pack is available for download now. Netscape users must use Netscape Communicator 4.5 or greater with 128-bit encryption to access Internet Banki
