Symphony security passes the test.

You’ve signed up to Symphony, configured your event, set up an online booking form, started collecting your first delegate registrations and put the kettle on for a cuppa, but uh-oh, here’s captain paranoia.  Where is all that data stored?  Is it secure?  Are your precious delegate details going to fall into the wrong hands with you getting the blame?

The answer is of course no!  Symphony is built with security in mind.  All data is stored inside a secure data centre with industry standard firewall protection and the Symphony application itself uses Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to ensure that all communication to your web browser is encrypted.

All well and good, you can put the kettle on..., but what about those nefarious hackers?  Don’t they know all about breaking firewalls and encryption ciphers?  That’s where penetration testing comes in.  Penetration testing is where the nice hackers (the ones who have the force but use it for good, think Obi-wan Kenobi) can be employed to test your system for vulnerabilities.

Penetration testers perform a barrage of tests against your servers, probing for vulnerabilities.  Any that they find are duly reported and action taken to rectify the matter.  Symphony systems have been penetration tested many times and have always come out with a good report.  This attention to security has allowed us to host events for information sensitive clients like the government’s Information Assurance 2009 event.

So you can relax, your data is in good hands.  Yes, you can put the kettle on now.