The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has commenced a final roll-out of two-factor authentication (2FA) systems that will see 400,000 customers of its NetBank internet banking service upgraded to the secure log-in technology.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has signed a five-year deal with digital identity firm IdenTrust to enable more secure authentication and electronic signatures for CommBiz customers using certain applications.
Telstra has sealed a 10-year telecommunications and managed computing deal with Coca-Cola Amatil.
Most Commonwealth Bank customers will see real-time banking next year as the bank's main products are switched over onto its new core banking platform.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia has topped up its core banking war chest with a further $150 million aimed at bulking up analytical, risk and financial management systems, as well as extending its new platform to subsidiaries.
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Banks obviously have an interest in making consumers feel safe. They are there to protect the customers' money. They want customers to use their online services, too, because the channel offers a lower cost per transaction than a branch. But giving away free security software to make customers feel safe is probably doing more harm than good.
Commonwealth Bank CIO Michael Harte this week publicly pondered popular Web technologies most IT managers must be looking at and asking "how can these make/save me money?"
Think the Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) framework is boring? So did one Commonwealth Bank worker, apparently. She doesn't work there anymore.
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Sceptical that Australians are targeted by cybercrime? Late last year the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AusCERT) was asked to repatriate hundreds of Commonwealth Bank customer credentials which had been stolen via the ZeuS trojan.
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