Security and Technology
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Technology
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QuickAssure, a web-based system, uses the same technology as Google to ensure the quickest transactions and the capability to deal with high volume usage. It has a UNIX foundation to prevent system crashes, with advanced architecture to scale up as usage increases, so regardless of the size of your company and the number of your people using the system at any one time, QuickAssure will be able handle all of the data all of the time without sacrificing quality or speed.
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Security
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We work tirelessly to ensure that the system is protected from any unauthorised attempts to gain access to your data both by protecting the transmission of information between your computer and QuickAssure, and by protecting the QuickAssure network.
Keeping your data secure
There are a number of features in place to protect your data. All users of QuickAssure have individual user names and passwords, which they must use to access the system, and are allocated a user level (Company Manager / Assured User / Accounting) that affects what they are able to view. Each time a user logs in, their details are submitted and then encrypted via SSL, the latest government security standard.
Your data is further protected by Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) technology, with 128-bit keys. This high performance algorithm automatically encrypts and decrypts without affecting the user’s experience. In comparison, the Digital Encryption Standard (DES) widely used in other systems uses keys that are only 56 bits long. To put this into perspective, if a machine existed that could recover a DES key in just one second, it would take that machine approximately 149 trillion years to recover an AES key. This provides virtually infinite protection for yours and your clients’ data
Keeping the network secure
The network is protected from intruders and hackers by high-end firewalls and is constantly monitored by leading security vendors, a third party firm and our own team. Between us we identify any changes, vulnerabilities and errors, and regularly conduct vulnerability threat assessments to ensure our protection systems are up to date.