Digital Security
How GenuBank protects you:
As we’re asked to place trust in institutions more and more to use and store sensitive information, it’s critical to partner with businesses that not only value digital security, but have a strategy in place. At GenuBank, we vow to protect your data using the most up-to-date standards available, and to adopt and implement new technologies in this area as they become available.
Personal Information
All of our customers’ Personally Identifiable Information (sometimes referred to as PII) is stored and transmitted securely.
Outgoing emails sent by GenuBank that contain customer information are required to be encrypted.
Online Banking
Our online banking systems use multiple factors of authentication to ensure that unauthorized parties cannot access your data.
How you can protect yourself:
There are a few simple changes you can make to protect your data and privacy. Here’s what you should be thinking about — and for a full list of tips, please visit the official website of the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency.
Passwords
Probably the single most important thing you can do to protect yourself is to use a password manager in order to generate and remember different — and hard to guess — passwords for each of your online accounts. You should also try to use multi-factor authentication for your accounts whenever that option is available.
Web Browsing
It’s an uncomfortable fact that companies attempt to track everything we do online. Consider employing a browser extension to block ads and the data they try to collect. Also, make sure you’re always browsing the web securely by using sites that begin with “https” — and be wary of what data you share over public Wi-Fi.
Virus Protection
Computer viruses are still a very real thing. Malicious software (or malware) can run in the background unnoticed, potentially gathering sensitive data — not to mention drastically affecting the performance of your machine. If you share a computer with multiple users (especially kids, who may not know what they’re clicking on), it’s a smart idea to install antivirus software, most importantly if you are on a machine running Windows. Because Windows is the world’s most popular operating system, it is also the most vulnerable.