The privacy and safety of your financial information
is First HomeBank's utmost concern. Your transactions are as
safe as current technology allows them to be. First Home Bank
works with cutting edge technology partners to ensure that the
most secure environment available is made possible for our valued
customers. We offer you worry free Online Banking. You can be
completely confident of the following security measures:
Secure Communications:
Our system ensures that data exchanged between your PC and our
computers is encrypted with 128-bit encryption-the strongest
encryption available. Encryption is accomplished through Secure
Sockets Layers (SSL)which utilize mathematical formulas to "encrypt"
or hide information from prying eyes on the Internet. Additionally,
if SSL detects that data was added or deleted after you sent
it to the bank, the connection will be severed in order to guard
against any tampering. The most popular browsers have the SSL
security feature built in. How can you tell if your browser
is secure?
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Secure Environment
Our computer system does not connect directly to the Internet.
It is isolated from the network via a "firewall".
A firewall is a combination of software and hardware products
that designate parameters, control and limit the access that
outside computers have to the banks internal network and databases.
You can feel secure knowing that our firewall protects your
personal information from unauthorized access.
Secure Login
Access ID's and passwords are isolated from the Internet by
being stored on a secure computer. This way the passwords and
access ID's can never be accessed or downloaded by anyone on
the Internet. Additionally, user passwords can vary from six
to eight characters, which means the chance of randomly guessing
a password is less than one in 1 billion! The system also checks
for invalid logins and automatically disallows a user after
three invalid attempts. This prohibits the "hacker"
from gaining access to our system thus protecting your accounts.
Your Access ID and Password
You will be responsible for maintaining one of the most important
security measures, your access ID and password. When you receive
your initial First Home Online Banking access ID and password,
you will be responsible for changing the initial access ID and
password to your personally selected ID and password. Be sure
to keep your newly selected password a secret. Memorize it,
or write it down and keep it in a safe place. It is not recommended
you carry your password in your purse or wallet. Make sure no
one watches you enter your password and always close your browser
when leaving the computer. Make sure you regularly scan your
computer for viruses that could be used to capture password
keystrokes. You ultimately hold the key to your password security.
Not even a bank employee knows your password.