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'Security-on-a-Stick' to protect consumers and banks from the most sophisticated hacker attacks

The Zone Trusted Information Channel (ZTIC) plugs into the USB port of any computer and creates a direct, secure channel to a bank's online transaction server, bypassing the PC which could be infected by malicious software (malware) or susceptible to hacker attacks.

The consumer can use the security stick to logon and validate all transactions via a display, while the USB device is securely connected to the server, safeguarding against today's ever more fiendish forms of attacks that can manipulate data in the background, hidden from the consumer and the bank. The USB device adds an extra level of security to the existing authentication solutions provided by smart card, PIN or one-time validation code, in order to counter the newest and most highly manipulative security threats.

Hackers are becoming increasingly inventive in their attempts to attack financial transactions on the Internet. Among the increasingly prominent threats are so called "Man-In-The-Middle" attacks, where a hacker inconspicuously intercepts and modifies the messages flowing between a user and a financial institution. The modified messages appear to be official transactions from the financial institution, and the messages going to the financial institution appear to be from the consumer.

Malware is an even more fiendish form of attack, where the hacker manages to install a virus or Trojan Horse in a user's personal computer and is then free to manipulate the messages seen by and sent by the user. This allows the attacker to redirect communications and manipulate the data displayed by the internet browser in real-time during the user's e-banking session and totally unnoticeable to the user's eyes.

Nearly 90 percent of identity attacks online are targeted at the financial services sector. A 2007 international study by the Swiss Reporting and Analysis Centre for Information Assurance (MELANI), found that successful malware intrusions have increased and that currently established "two-factor authentication systems (e.g. transaction authentication numbers, SecurID, etc.) do not afford protection against such attacks and must be viewed as insecure once the computer of the customer has been infected with malware."

ZTIC provides an extra layer of security in the presence of both of these attacks.
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