On October 24, 2007, IT security solutions provider Comodo (comodo.com) pronounced that The First National Bank of Ipswich (fnbi.com) will deploy Comodo's Two Factor Authentication solution, Comodo EV SSL certificates and Comodo Content Verification Certificates, to ensure that its online presence is secure with a high level of identity assurance.

Based on strong public key infrastructure, Comodo’s solutions deliver a secure and innovative way to create a mutual-authentication model that confirms the site and user identity and that is easy to use. Comodo said these solutions leverage the mature and proven PKI platform so that banks can benefit from a holistic offering that provides ease of deployment, cost effectiveness and a highly secure PKI platform for mutual authentication processes.

"The continuing pressure on banks to introduce new online banking services while maintaining security is an important challenge," commented Melih Abdulhayoglu, CEO and chief security architect of Comodo. "These solutions are based on PKI, a highly recognized security standard yet are non-intrusive to the online banking experience. Comodo delivers compliance, security within an architecture that is easy on banks and their customers."

Comodo was also recently named a finalist for the 2008 Global Product Excellence Award in the Authentication technology category by Info Security (infosecurityproductsguide.com), a publication on security-related products and technologies.