SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)

SSL, proceeded by TLS, is a security protocol that encrypts data and enabled authentication between applications over a network.

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    The Office of Thrift Supervision, between 1989 and 2011, was a federal agency that regulated all savings banks (chartered and state-chartered), savings associations, and loans associations.

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    Tokenization replaces sensitive financial account information with a random string of characters, called a token. Learn More

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