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Hot on the heels of my post on Two-Factor Authentication, it appears that Wells Fargo is getting into the Cloud Storage business.
Their product, Wells Fargo vSafe, is part of your Online Banking account. It is a for pay service with the following pricing:
Additionally, they are offering customers the option to sign into their vSafe accounts using what they call Advanced Access, aka Two-Factor Authentication using either:
vSafe has some nice features like:
The only downside to this is that I cannot use my VeriSign VIP Token with WellsFargo since RSA SecurID and VeriSign do not interop. Personally I don’t want two dongles. Meanwhile the VeriSign VIP Token seems more widely supported (PayPal, eBay etc).
I think this is great news, and I fully expect that security will start to play a larger role in the coming years as companies start to compete based on their security offerings.
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