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ADVANCED ONLINE AUTHENTICATION
- Frequently Asked Questions |
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What is Advanced Online Authentication? |
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Advanced Online Authentication provides enhanced and additional security for the online banking application. It is now a standard part of our online banking and works as part of our commitment to protect you against identity theft and fraud. Advanced Online Authentication adds extra layers of online security to prevent unauthorized access to your accounts and reinforces the fact that you are at our financial institution's Internet Banking website. |
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What does Advanced Online Authentication involve? |
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Advanced Online Authentication
consists of the following: an image, a caption
and three to six challenge questions. This information
is known only to you and the financial institution
and protects you, whether you are logging in
to view your accounts from your own personal
computer or another computer. |
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How does Advanced Online Authentication
work? |
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Once you enter your
user ID on the Internet Banking login screen,
click the Validate link, your image will then
be displayed along with the caption you create.
This confirms that you are at our financial institution's
Internet Banking website and you are safe to
enter your Password to access your information.
Each time you log in from a different computer,
the challenge questions will be asked to verify
your identity. Once you provide the correct answers,
your image and caption will display and you may
enter your password. You will also be asked if
you wish to register the computer from which
you are logging in. If you select this option,
the Advanced Online Authentication system will
then capture the information about the computer
so that you will not have to answer challenge
questions the next time you log in from that
same machine. |
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Will I need to change my password? |
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No. Your password
remains the same. |
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How is Advanced Online Authentication
more secure? |
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Advanced Online Authentication
protects you from accidentally or unknowingly
revealing your user ID and password to an imposter
or a fraudulent website. By entering your User
ID and clicking validate, we are able to provide
you with your image and caption. If the image
presented is the one that you selected, you can feel
secure in entering your password to proceed. In addition,
if someone does get your user ID and password and
attempt to login, they will be using a computer that
you did not register, therefore, the system will
present the user with challenge questions. Since
they will not know the answers to the questions that
you provided during the set up process, they will
be turned away and the financial institution will
be notified. |
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Why do I need to set up challenge
questions? |
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Challenge questions
and answers provide information known only to
you and the financial institution. They help
prevent unauthorized access to your account information.
If someone else has access to your user ID and
password, they will not know the answer to your
challenge question and will not be able to get
to your information. |
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Can someone steal my Advanced
Online Authentication image and caption? |
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No,
your image and caption is only shown to you if
you login to a computer that has been registered
or if you have successfully responded to the
challenge question(s) that have been asked. It
is not possible for an unauthorized person to
get access to your image. |
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When I enter my user ID, it asks
me a question instead of showing my image. Why? |
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This is to help verify that it's really you signing
in. There are several reasons why you might be challenged.
These challenge questions are meant to keep imposters
out because only you know the answers to these questions.Some reasons might be:
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You
are logging in from a different computer |
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You
are logging in from a different browser |
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Your
token is missing from your computer because
you cleared all the cookies on your |
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computer
or your cookie/token disappeared |
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You incorrectly typed your User ID on the first attempt |
If you are challenged, answer the question with the correct answer, and you are correctly shown your image. |
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What if I share my computer with
someone who has their own account? Can we both
login from the same machine? |
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Yes, you can use the same computer to log into your
individual accounts. There is no limit on how many
people can log into the bank website from the same
computer.
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Can I change my image and text
phrase? |
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Yes, to make the
change, simply click on the Change Passmark link
under 'My Profile' on the Online Banking menu
bar. If you are having difficulty, you can contact
the financial institution for assistance. |