How to Secure yourself during online banking transaction?

The 15 points to protect yourself while performing internet banking operations:-

1. Secure and Protect your confidential bank details(hard and soft copies) at all times.
2. Verify details related to your online portfolios, bank accounts, ATM cards, loans, and likewise monetary and finance websites, web portals, and social media profiles regularly so to avoid any inconsistencies in updation of your records. Also, verification helps you to detect and report any fraudulent activities in your accounts and profiles to the concerned authorities.
3. Access your bank's website only via typing the website URL in the address bar of your browser.
4. Don't access the websites and web portals pertaining to your portfolios, transactions, bank and similar related monetary and finance facilities by clicking any unverified link from any email, text message or a social media message to avoid the most common attack in the world --> Phishing attack.
5. Refrain from providing any details related to bank accounts, ATM cards, etc. to any email/message/phone calls you receive demanding any kind of data related to your Government Identity and bank accounts.
6. It is highly advisable to use a very good antivirus software solution in the device you use to perform online monetary and finance-related operations.
7. Avoid accessing internet banking from public wifi and public places like cyber cafes, public hotspots, cafeteria, shopping malls, etc.
8. Never share any kind of Identity confirmation credentials with others. Ex. OTP, Username, Password, Secret Key,etc.
9. Set up alert message feature on your internet bank accounts for all transactions so that you receive the confirmation as well as permission privilege to monitor and keep everything under your nose.
10. Always log out from your account and clear cache memory after completing the transactions.
11. Use 2FA (2Factor-Authentication) mechanisms wherever it is possible.
12. Use a quite complex password and combination of alphanumerical and special character with a length of more than 20 characters. It is advisable to check your password's crackability value on any online platforms such as https://howsecureismypassword.net/ to get you an approximate idea of the strength of your password.
13. Disable the autocomplete and password storage features in your browser.
14. Check your last/previous login information whenever you log in to banking website and application to confirm your presence and detect any fraudulent attempts as well.
15. Always access the internet from behind the personal firewall to perform online banking transactions as well as update, upgrade and patch the browsers you use of security updates and bug fixes.

Remember, the hackers, attackers, and adversaries are always on the lookout for either any loopholes in organizational Security or the ignorance of Humans towards their Cyber responsibilities generating a Human Error. Every Cyber incident occurs either due to System Error or Human Error. It is better to be Always Alert and Awake! w.r.t. Cyber Awareness.