What is a U shield?

What is a "U shield"?

U Shield is a national patent "intelligent guardian" initiated by Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, which is specially used to protect the safety of online banking customers. It is a kind of physical hardware with intelligent chip, and its shape is similar to flash memory (U disk). It is the highest security tool for online banking clients at present. Although small, it plays a great role as the gatekeeper of online banking, and it is the guardian of online banking information and capital security!

Anti-theft ability of "U shield"

"U shield" is unique and unrepeatable, and all external transfers involving account funds on the Internet must be uniquely authenticated in advance. Customers can effectively guard against various possible risks including "fake websites" and "Trojan horses" viruses without having professional Internet knowledge. In other words, as long as the user holds a "U shield" in his hand, even if the bank card number and password are accidentally leaked, he can safely use online banking.

How does "U Shield" guard against theft?

"U Shield" specially adopts the personal client certificate of physical media, and establishes a personal certificate authentication system based on public key (PKI) technology. Technically, customer certificates can authenticate the identity of customers' online transactions through personal certificate authentication and digital signature technology, and can sign various business service agreements to ensure the uniqueness, integrity and non-repudiation of transactions and agreements.

Bidding conditions

Customers who hold ICBC Peony Card can register as online banking customers, and apply for using U shield at our business outlets with their valid certificates and Peony Card used when registering online banking.