Nationalshrinkdatabse.com is built upon many layers of security and designed to provide a nearly inviolate barrier to exposure of data theft. Understanding the importance of corporate as well as personal information, the application is protected at multiple levels, in accordance with the security principle of defense in depth. This principle takes in account; secure hosting environment, secure operating systems, secure infrastructure, and secure application design.
Encryption - Part of secure application design, involves the transformation of information at the byte level, rendering the information unreadable in plaintext. Data encryption within the database provides a layer of defense, protecting data even if a network or system becomes compromised.
Within the NSD application database, the following information is identified as being sensitive and encrypted; corporate information, personal information, store related information.
The Advance Encryption Standard (AES), also know as Rijndael encryption, is the 128-bit process utilized in NSD.
For information regarding technical specs on standard security policy with NSD, please click here or contact Brian Cunningham at 610.903.3000 or bcunningham@capindex.com.