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Protect Data: Possibility For The User to Identify Him Or Herself By Entering a PIN

Protect Data Supplies Another 10.000 Internet Bank Users With Security Solution

(28.04.03) - Östgöta Enskilda Bank has placed an additional order with the IT security company Protect Data regarding secure digital identities for users of the bank's Internet bank "Hembanken". The extension of the framework agreement is making it possible to connect an additional 10000 Internet bank customers, with delivery taking place during the current and the next quarter of this year.

The security solution makes it possible for the user to identify him or herself by entering a PIN code on his or her security token and thereby achieve a secure digital identity. Protect Data's undertaking applies both to initiation and programming of the security tokens. The security solution is flexible and can be used in most types of system where users communicate with central applications.

The security solution has the advantage that it also works with a large number of users, as can be seen from other Internet banks that are using the same solution. In addition, the user is not tied to one place. The security solutions offers the bank's customers mobility in the execution of their banking transactions. All they need is a telephone or a computer with an Internet connection. The security tokens are produced by ActivCard and supplied by Protect Data on the Nordic market. (ma)

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Kontakt: Magnus Söderlind

Tel. (0046-8) 4595425 alt (0046-733) 565425

E-Mail: magnus.soederlind@protectdata.com

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