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(Vadivel Mohanakrishnan) The other day, I was transacting online with my personal banker while chatting with a friend of mine in Messenger discussing my plans for the weekend. Suddenly, a thought occurred to me. Have you ever tried being online in Messenger from two different computers at the same time? Believe me, I tried it and was logged out from the first computer. i.e. the latest logon session is retained and the user is automatically signed out from the other session.
Thinking in the same lines, I was really curious about what would happen, if my wife logged on to the same banking system at the same time and transacted. Of course, transaction levels would have been defined properly in the application. However, thinking in terms of nuts and bolts, I was wondering what one could do about it. Can something be done about it at all? Is the crux of the problem really session de-duplication? Or do I have to prohibit the user from simultaneous logons. How? Do I have to track IP addresses? What about all the proxy, firewall, subnet funda? Read On .... |
