What security measures does MetroNet Online Banking use?
The security and privacy of your financial information is a priority with Metropolitan. MetroNet utilizes several features to help protect your privacy and information. All information within MetroNet uses the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) protocol for transferring data. SSL is encryption that creates a secure environment for the information being transferred between your browser and Metropolitan. At a high level, SSL uses public key cryptography to secure transmissions over the Internet. In practice, your browser will send a message via SSL to the bank’s server. The bank responds by sending a certificate, which contains the bank’s public key. Your browser authenticates the certificate (agrees that the server is in fact Metropolitan), then generates a random session key which is used to encrypt data traveling between your browser and the bank’s server. This session key is encrypted using the bank’s public key and sent back to the server. The bank decrypts this message using its private key
The security and privacy of your financial information is a priority with Metropolitan. MetroNet utilizes several features to help protect your privacy and information. All information within MetroNet uses the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) protocol for transferring data. SSL is encryption that creates a secure environment for the information being transferred between your browser and Metropolitan. At a high level, SSL uses public-key cryptography to secure transmissions over the Internet. Your browser will send a message via SSL to the bank’s server. The bank responds by sending a certificate, which contains the bank’s public key. Your browser authenticates the certificate (agrees that the server is, in fact, Metropolitan), and then generates a random session key, which is used to encrypt data traveling between your browser and the bank’s server. This session key is encrypted using the bank’s public key and sent back to the server. The bank decrypts this message using its private key, and
