These policies are made up of software and hardware solutions and procedures. When combined, these policies form a rigid security implementation that enables members to conduct business with the credit union via the Internet with an extremely high degree of security. At no time does anyone from the outside world have access to a BWCU data base via the Internet. Any request for data must pass through two distinct validation and control centers, the Application Firewall and the Net-24 Server. Each request and answer is logged at each stop through the firewall.
Any suspicious activity is logged and causes an alarm.
Any incoming request from the Internet is first captured by the Application Firewall and validated. The Application Firewall stops all incoming traffic. The Net-24 Server will only take requests from the Firewall. The Net-24 Server then makes a request to the Firewall speaking its own language on a secret port for a secret address. The Firewall again validates this request and talks to the credit union data base on its secret port for its secret address.