What types of laws are in place to help deter would-be hackers of financial info?
For a virus to be spread, it needs to be transmitted to your computer system from outside of your organization somehow. That’s why viruses are often spread by email. Once you get the virus into your system, it usually attacks something other than your email. At PresidentialBank.com we place a lot of emphasis on system security. For example, our email system is programmed to scan incoming e-mails for viruses and to block e-mails that contain viruses. We have recently had viruses arrive via email, but they are blocked by our email system. For a virus to do harm once it is inside your organization, the virus creator has to know something about your computer systems. For example, viruses often lodge themselves in word processing or other widely used software, because the virus author can assume that you probably have word processing software. Each online banking system is complex and unique, however, so the hacker will not know in advance how it is constructed. A “firewall” system is used
