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First Republic Banking Online Network Security
We provide a number of additional security features in online banking. Online banking will "timeout" after a specified period of inactivity. This prevents curious persons from continuing your home banking session in case you have left your PC unattended without logging out. You may set the timeout period in the User Options screen of online banking. We also recommend that you always sign-off (log out) when you are done with your online banking.
While the network architecture used to provide online banking is complex and difficult to explain briefly, it is important to note that the computers that store your actual account information are not hooked up to the Internet. The requests you make through the Internet are handled by our home banking servers, which retrieve the information you requested from our mainframe via proxy-based firewall servers. These servers act as the go-between you and our mainframe computers.
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