Internet Security and Programming

ING Direct, the nation’s largest online-only bank, said this week that it was giving away a software tool that would allow customers to bank online safely at ING, even if the user’s PC was already infected with data-stealing malicious software. ING made the somewhat bold claim in partnering with an Israeli company named Trusteer, which offers an installable program called Rapport. Trusteer’s main invester is a man named Shlomo Kramer, co-founder of Check Point Software, the company that makes and markets the ZoneAlarm firewall products. Kramer is now CEO of Imperva, an application data protection company, which he co-founded with Mickey Boodaei, who is CEO of Trusteer. Boodaei said Rapport creates a “secure pipe” within the user’s computer that encapsulates data as it flows to the ING Direct Web site. Boodei said the software works by assuming control over the application programming interfaces or APIs in Windows, the set of

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