Safe & Secure?
Our host provider, QuickBase®, is owned and operated by Intuit, the developer of leading Web applications such as TurboTax for the Web®, QuickBooks Online Edition® and Quicken.com®. Thanks to this experience, they are confidently behind the award-winning security, reliability and confidentiality of QuickBase®.
Access via Registration
QuickBase® offers access only to individual registered users who have specified an e-mail address and a password at least 5 characters in length. Each registrant also has to specify a challenge question and answer, to assist in the event of a forgotten password.
Permissions That You Control
When you create a new QuickBase®, only the people whom you explicitly invite can actually use it. This means you have complete control over who can view, modify, or add information to your online database. In addition, you can limit access to select information within your database through field-level permissions.
Security Over the Internet
QuickBase® employs industry-standard, 128-bit Secure Socket Layers (SSL) protocol to ensure your information is neither intercepted nor corrupted during transmission over the Internet. In addition, QuickBase® uses encryption technology to help protect your data when stored on disk.
What Makes QuickBase Reliable?
QuickBase® is not a “dot-com,” with a “here today, gone tomorrow” business model. They’re a member of the Intuit family of products and services, representing more than $1 billion in annual sales and more than 25 million customers. It’s through these resources that they can make investments in systems and information reliability.
In fact, their data center is the same facility that handles millions of tax returns via TurboTax for the Web each year. To assure continued service, data integrity, and customer confidence, they’ve outfitted this data center with:
- thoroughly tested intrusion detection software and hardware to stop unauthorized access attempts and other suspicious activity
- the most advanced firewall software available to prevent “spoofing”
- daily back-ups of all information stored with QuickBase to prevent data loss
- 24x7x365 security, including trained personnel, video surveillance, and alarms, to prevent physical breaches
- uninterruptible power supplies (UPS) and multiple back-up generators in case of power outage
- smoke detection and fire suppression systems
In case of natural disaster, they have a second and separate data center that redundantly protects and stores all customer information and assets.
What Makes QuickBase Confidential?
Over the years, Intuit has adopted strict guidelines and practices so that your private information stays that way. Not even QuickBase® personnel are allowed to access information within your databases without your express permission.
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