With thousands of Members visiting the CU SoCal website each month, it's important to let you know that we have measures in place to help protect cusocal.org from potential attacks. While we're not 100% immune to fraudulent attacks from would-be identity thieves (no financial institution is), we monitor our site 24/7, and have implemented several layers of protection to minimize the chances for a successful intrusion. Here's a brief overview:

• We monitor the website every few minutes. This includes automatically verifying that the site is up and available as part of over 70 checks from separate locations. We also analyze all files on the website, checking for any changes in size or location that would indicate that the site has been altered without our authorization. Automatic messages are immediately sent to a number of key staff at CU SoCal in the event that there are any changes to the site.
• Our domain name is secured. We use internet service providers that host our domain name across different segments of the Internet (including other continents), as well as, provide added security over these domain names. This helps to "lock down" our domain name so Members encounter less risk of being redirected to a fraudulent site without their knowledge or permission.
• The website's host is protected. Our hosting service maintains the server running our site with the latest security patches available, within a data center that'll provide the highest levels of availability to Members in the event of something unforeseen, like a natural disaster in Southern California.
• CU OnLine is encrypted. It goes without saying that you expect your online financial transactions to be protected to the highest degree possible. When you access CU OnLine, your financial information is automatically encrypted. Simply put, your financial transaction is scrambled, sent to us via a secure server, and then decoded with a process that only our data processing system knows. This happens for each and every transaction, 24/7.