Incorporate best practices including, but not limited to:
- Never sharing login IDs (user IDs), passwords or PIN numbers.
- Not using your login or password for your financial institution on any other website or software.
- Using strong complex passwords (include a mix of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, special characters and phrases).
- Not writing down your login ID or passwords. If you do, store the information in a secure place.
- Never accessing your financial institution’s online banking from a public computer at a hotel, library, restaurant or other public wireless access point.
- Enabling transaction and security alerts through online banking.
- Not providing personal or financial information over unsecure websites or networks.
- Utilizing firewalls and/or anti-virus software, which can protect your computer.
- Ensuring your anti-virus software and operating system patches are kept up to date.
- Never clicking on a link in a suspicious email. Instead, confirm the web address on your own, and then type it directly into you browser.
- Use caution opening attachments, which can contain malicious software. Avoid opening attachments you are not expecting or from someone you do not know.