Your experience online is very important to DEXSTA, and the Account Access Sign On is conveniently located on our DEXSTA.com home page. However, you may have noticed that, when you are on the home page, the familiar security symbols do not appear in your browser to symbolize that the page is secure. In fact, the home page itself is informational and not encrypted. Therefore it does not display the familiar "Lock" symbol in the bottom right-hand corner, nor does the address line begin with https. However, it is "safe" to enter your sign-on information from the home page. Your Access Number, User ID and Password are not transmitted until you click the "Sign On" button. After you click the "Sign On" button, a secure, encrypted connection is established between your personal computer's browser and our DEXSTA systems, using Secure Socket Layers (SSL). After you click "Sign On", you can validate that SSL is being used by seeing that "https" is displayed at the beginning of the data in your browser's address line.

Signing on to secure sites from an unsecure page is a common industry practice, and not unique to DEXSTA. You may see this same functionality at other Web sites.

Please note: DEXSTA can only take steps to establish a secure, encrypted connection after you click on the "Sign On" button. To help protect the information that you enter into your computer's browser before the secure connection is established (such as your Access Number, User ID and Password), we highly recommend that you install the following security software on your personal computer (PC): anti-virus software, a firewall and spyware detection software.