If you’re protection minded, you might keep your vital paper documents in a safe-deposit box at your local bank. whether those documents are digital, you can keep them in a virtual safe-deposit box so that they’re not only secure, but additionally available from anywhere.

Wells Fargo Bank will soon offer its retail banking customers a personal online safe-deposit box that it calls “a natural extension” of the company’s 156-year defense legacy.

The Wells Fargo vSafe service is the first online storage solution offered by a financial services company, according to Katherine McGee, senior vice president of Wells Fargo’s Net Services Group.

Like other online storage solutions, vSafe offers accessibility from any computer with an World Wide Web connection. Documents, PDFs, spreadsheets, and even media files can be stored. McGee told us that the bank did extensive research with its consumer and small-business customers and honed the product to match their needs. The offering is integrated with the Wells Fargo Online

Banking service so that customers can have history statements automatically added each month

“It’s secure online storage with an easy-to-use interface built for customers based on their needs,” she said. The company offers a set of boilerplate folders to help customers get started quickly; there’s plus an option to create rare folders and subfolders. McGee said that online forms simplify the procedure of consolidating input from a plethora of sticky notes into one safe place (such as a PDF document). Users can add folders and upload files from any computer.

shield a Priority

With sensitive documents being uploaded and stored, safety measure is naturally a priority to customers. According to McGee, vSafe “offers secure storage, and it’s available through the Wells Fargo online banking session, so we leverage all the safety measure we use for online banking,” as well as additional measures that encrypt knowledge as it crosses the World Wide Web…

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