Societe Generale in India secures its corporate banking customers with VASCO's DIGIPASS 270

OAKBROOK TERRACE, Ill. and ZURICH, Aug. 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- VASCO Data Security International, Inc. (Nasdaq: VDSI) (www.vasco.com), a leading software security company specializing in authentication, and Societe Generale India, a commercial bank engaged in offering its Corporate Clients various banking services (www.societegenerale.in), announce that Societe Generale uses DIGIPASS 270 to secure its corporate banking customers. The Indian bank recently launched its online corporate banking solution and ensures safe transactions with VASCO's strong authentication solution.

Societe Generale India operates under the license of a Scheduled Commercial Bank and provides a wide range of banking facilities and services. Recently, the bank launched its online corporate banking services, using the Finacle eBanking system from Infosys, which offers its corporate customers an online login to do their financial transactions. Societe Generale felt it was imperative to invest in a strong authentication solution to ensure complete safety.

"We acknowledged the need for enhanced security on two levels," said Eric Hautefeuille, Chief Operating Officer of Societe Generale India. "The login level needed to be secured to counter any phishing attack and at the transaction level it needed an extra layer of security to protect against more sophisticated attacks, such as Man-in-the-Middle attacks. VASCO's DIGIPASS 270 offers one-time passwords and e-signatures to authenticate and secure the online banking transactions."

DIGIPASS 270 is an ideal and convenient personal authentication device. In order to gain access to the online banking application, the end user needs to generate a dynamic password/one-time password (OTP) on the device. This OTP can only be used once in a limited period of time and enables secure authorized access to the Banking application.

In addition to that, the DIGIPASS 270 offers an electronic signature functionality to secure more complex transactions. With an electronic signature, part of the transaction amount or the account number is implemented in the calculation of the generated OTP. As a result, changes in account number or in the transaction amount cannot be enforced during the transaction and thus man-in-the-Middle attacks are useless. This too has been deployed by the Bank, keeping the customers' security in perspective.

Jan Valcke, President and COO, VASCO Data Security, adds: "A secure authentication method is indispensable as part of a full security service. By integrating a secure login and transaction process that use respectively dynamic passwords and e-signatures, the security gap can be bridged. Moreover, it also boosts customer confidence and enhances the company's good brand name. We are very proud that Societe Generale India decided to implement a VASCO solution to tackle security issues."

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About Societe Generale
Societe Generale Group is one of the largest European financial services groups. Based on a diversified universal banking model, the Group combines financial solidity with a strategy of sustainable growth, and aims to be the reference for relationship banking, recognised on its markets, close to clients, chosen for the quality and commitment of its teams.

Around 160,000 employees, based in 77 countries, accompany more than 33 million clients throughout the world on a daily basis. Societe Generale' teams offer advice and services to individual, corporate and institutional customers in three core businesses:

• Retail banking in France with two branch networks (Societe Generale and Credit du Nord), as well as an online bank, Boursorama.
• International retail banking, with a presence in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia, in the Mediterranean basin, in Sub-Saharan Africa, in Asia and in the French Overseas Territories.
• Corporate and investment banking with a global expertise in investment banking, financing and global markets.

Societe Generale is also a significant player in specialised financing and insurance, private banking, asset management and securities services.

Societe Generale is included in the main international socially-responsible investment indices: FTSE4Good, ASPI, DJSI World and DJSI Europe.

For details, please visit our group website: http://www.societegenerale.com/ and http://www.societegenerale.in/, our India website.

About VASCO:
VASCO is a leading supplier of strong authentication and e-signature solutions and services specializing in Internet Security applications and transactions. VASCO has positioned itself as global software company for Internet Security serving a customer base of approximately 10,000 companies in more than 100 countries, including approximately 1,700 international financial institutions. VASCO's prime markets are the financial sector, enterprise security, e-commerce and e-government. VASCO's products and services are delivered on the customers' premises or in the cloud.

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