Volver a Blog Cibersecurity Networking What's new in electronic banking that offers security to users? 9 May, 2017 The technology has improved a lot in the past few years and with that evolution the whole society has moved and step forward and adapted to these new changes in pro of saving time, convenience and the constant need to keep in touch with others at any place. Clearly many things had to adapt to this new environment on advance technology and internet connections, the banks been one of the first things that needed these transformations and the first step was to create web pages from where part of the count management could be done without having to move in person to a bank. The evolution does not end there and from that moment the evolution of new technology and security systems to improve the electronic banking has begun so this new space is safe and reliable. Benefits of electronic banking This new adaptation has given a lot of improvements to the banking we already knew, the electronic banking gives all the cybernetic benefits and that includes a lot of new information available for companies letting them know more detailed and daily information about balances enabling a better management of the money specially when it comes to making investments. The electronic banking has become something indispensable because it saves so much time and investment on other ways of communication, before this new technology any move of a bank account had to be made going directly to the bank and if there was any information needed, the banks had a special phone service manage by operators. Nowadays there is no need of any of this for most of the bank process and with a smartphone it is very easy to manipulate a bank account. Keeping safe the electronic bank The security may be one of the most worrying aspects of the electronic banking since the cybernetic world can be really vulnerable to cyber-attacks and malwares that can be considered a threat to for electronic banks. However there has been a development on security technologies that can provide the users many different options to keep safe their information and accounts. One of the most important factors to protect in the electronic banking is the identity confirmation i.e. the mechanism used to confirm the user is the true owner of the account. For this porpoise the electronic banking has created special questions, elaborated passwords and even messages been sent to our cellphones. Nowadays there are investigations on improve these mechanism into more simple and quick process such as face recognition, making the sing in process even simpler. There are other new technologies coming soon, always searching for the most simple ways, maybe in the future there won’t be need of credit cards and paying things could be done by just swiping our watches over a sensor, of course all these new changes are been developed to be secure and certainly will save us a lot of time and troubles. The electronic banking has much to offer and is in constant evolution