Information Technology

Stay protected

The best way to avoid becoming a victim of scams and frauds, is to protect your personal information.

We recommend setting up Alerts on your Yampa Valley Bank accounts, to stay ahead of any fraudulent activity.

One simple way to protect yourself and your PII is by setting up a Multifactor Authentication (MFA) to your email. You can add this to your Gmail account here.

Read below to learn more about common online scams, and how to protect yourself from them.

10 Cybersecurity Tips

Enable the strongest authentication tools offered
Use unique passphrases as passwords
Do a system check and purge outdated apps and files
Manage social media settings and minimize information sharing
Use Wi-Fi judiciously and limit business over public Wi-Fi
Monitor account activity regularly and report discrepancies immediately
Back up intellectual property
Read the fine print
Be mindful when shopping online
Look for special indicators such as web addresses with https:// that denote extra measures taken to help secure your information

External Resources

Avoiding Social Engineering Attacks

In a social engineering attack, an attacker attempts to exploit someone’s trust in order to steal their information in order to commit fraud or identity theft. This resource describes the most common attacks and provides tips to steal information.

Internet Banking Security

This is a list of websites meant to provide our customers with additional resources to learn more about information security and fraud prevention.

Mobile Financial Services Security

This page details some security tips for protection your information while using mobile banking services.

Online Security, Additional Resources

This page features a list of additional websites and resources regarding information security.

Yampa Valley Bank IB Risk Assessment

This assessment is provided to assist commercial internet banking users in identifying threats and measuring the strength of their controls in place.