The Power of Partnership

At FSTC's heart are the world's leading financial institutions and the technology and service providers they use. Our subject matters experts comprise the leading technologists and business strategists of the financial services industry. Our project teams are staffed by industry-acknowledged thought leaders who provide trusted expert direction to FSTC investigations. Our staff and oversight groups assure outstanding service to FSTC's members. Our results are authoritative and relied upon by institutions, technology firms, and regulators.

Financial institutions established FSTC in 1993 as the industry's original forum for collaboration on technical issues affecting the financial services industry. Today, FSTC provides a safe, proven and reliable venue where institutions and technology companies explore today's pressing technical issues to strengthen the industry by facilitating competition in an increasingly interactive environment.

FIPS Compliance

One of our members was contacted by a customer who cannot access their site from a federal government network and/or gov't owned PC due to a mandate for FIPS compliance (in this case, ciphers supported by the website). Based on some ad-hoc checking, this would appear to be an issue applicable to other FI's, as well as vendor sites. Has anyone heard of this issue? Is anyone aware of the federal government more aggressively rolling out FIPS compliance mandate on sites accessed from government networks or government owned PCs? This appears to be about the cipher range being supported by the site, supporting cipher strengths lower than FIPS 2.0 mandates. The FIPS compliance setting elevates the cipher strength requirement, and the same behavior with other peer bank sites being blocked has been observed when you specify that compliance level in the browser.

FSTC Board of Directors

FSTC aims to achieve one goal: unite those in the industry to work collaboratively in a non-competitive, open forum to solve shared problems and challenges, as well as pioneer next generation technology that benefits us all. The board of directors plays an integral role in the achievment of this goal.

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