OREANDA-NEWS. August 14, 2009. Russian "daughter" of the International Bank of Azerbaijan, IBA-Moscow LLC starts using Aladdin eToken protected key carries to provide safety in Bank-Client System, reported the press-centre of IBA.

The bank reports one of major strategic tasks, envisaged by IBA-Moscow for the first half year of current year became modernization of the existing safety system of client service Internet - Service.

The Aladdin company is key Russian developer and supplier of authentication facilities, products and decisions on information safety, launched the project to protect Bank-Client System for IBA-Moscow by authentication facilities and storage of eToken key information.

The weak link of the system of distance bank service in most cases is providing of storage of key information of user, necessary for confirmation of authorship of the accomplished transaction by an electronic digital signature. In accordance with Russian legislation, it is required to keep closed (secret) key of electronic digital signature a secret. However, in practice is quite often is written down on an ordinary diskette, pill of Touch Memory and other unspecialized carriers, from where can be stolen easily by malefactors.

“In order to confirm accomplishing of any transaction on behalf of legal user of the system, it is enough to posses the closed key of electronic digital signature that it is not very difficult, if it is stored in a diskette. Adequately estimating risks which low level of safety in the distance bank servicing system carries, modern banks, without regard to scales, start using of the specialized personal carriers, able to provide the required level of services protection on the basis of electronic digital signature,” manager on work with the Aladdin company’s corporate customers Denis Kalemberg said.

Within the frames of project before IBA-Moscow stood task of choice of supplier of protection facilities, able to offer reliable solution, not being behind by its characteristic in comparison with world analogues and adequate by price characteristics for the clients of bank. After the conducted analysis, including monitoring of producers of protection facilities and projects realized by them as well as testing of key data carriers, in IBA-Moscow the choice was done for the benefit of the certificated keys of Aladdin eToken PRO 32К.