MIDDLETOWN, Pa. - Mid-Atlantic Corporate Federal Credit Union needed a way to securely communicate wire transfers for its members and found the solution in a little box called the SecureMail Gateway from GlobalCerts. The appliance sits on the network and can encrypt and decrypt email going either way on the...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Technicians from PM Systems help establish a virtual private network, a new data lifeline, for a stricken Mississippi credit union, while visitors from Louisiana make themselves a new home away from home at Jack Henry backup hot sites in Alabama and Texas. That's just two examples of...

ROSELLE PARK, N.J. - This typical summer afternoon found Glenn South helping staffers feed handwritten receipts, vouchers, check deposit slips and the like into the traveling shredder that had stopped by County Educators Federal Credit Union. It may sound low tech, but it's one less thing that could show up...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Credit unions not encrypting backup tapes are not alone. Currently, only about 6% of financial services organizations do, according to research firm Enterprise Strategy Group, but that number could quickly be rising, if it isn't already. The reason is fairly obvious. Among the reports of lost and...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - As the original user-name-and-password method of logging on relentlessly gives way to two-factor authentication and more, it may take with it one of the most-hyped and under-adopted services of the electronic banking revolution: account aggregation. That's the view of some industry observers and participants, including Forrester Research...

COLUMBIA, S.C. - Communications, or the lack thereof, loomed large in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, as core processors scrambled to help their client credit unions restore operations and get back to business after the storm. That could be a while, though, perhaps especially for credit unions running systems in-house...

ROCKVILLE, Md. - Mark Forsyth finished a few hours ahead of Lance Armstrong in one of the grueling mountain stretches of the Tour de France last year. Not bad for a 43-year-old senior manager at a suburban Washington credit union. Of course, Forsyth had quite a head start. An avid...

CHANTILLY, Va. - Online Resources Corp. is giving back about $2 million worth of unclaimed checks, prompting the online banking and bill pay specialist to also restate two years' worth of financial results. The company - which trades as ORCC on the Nasdaq - had been holding the funds but...