Platforms: Windows, Mac
When you log onto a Rapport-protected website Rapport requests your permission to start monitoring your login information. If you agree, Rapport creates an encrypted signature of your login information. This signature is stored on your computer and used by Rapport to warn you whenever you enter this login information into other websites.
Entering monitored login information into other websites triggers a warning. The warning identifies the website to which you enter the login information and allows you to either proceed and submit the information or stop and prevent the website from receiving this information.
The purpose of this warning is to prevent you from submitting sensitive login information to fraudulent websites. Fraudulent websites (also known as Phishing websites) look exactly the same as your bank's website and are designed to steal your login information. Rapport's very simple yet effective warning reveals the identity of the website to which you submit your login information and allows you to abort the submission if this is not the website you intended to visit.
Note that although Rapport keeps an encrypted signature of your login information, it is impossible to retrieve your login information from this signature even if someone gains access to your computer.
Note that Rapport sends anonymous reports about security events and internal errors to a central server. This information is used by Trusteer and your bank to improve the product and to identify new security threats. You can specifically instruct Rapport not to send out any information. Your password signatures are never sent to Trusteer and never leave your computer.