Why can I rely on Secure Online Billing?
Because the level of additional security that has been built into the service is considerably higher than in usual online services. As a principle, all sensitive information is stored encrypted on the server all the time and the key used to unlock the information in the database will always come from outside the system.
This principle makes Secure Online Bills reliable, because in the event of an insecurity on the server, anyone who reads stored files, can only see or steal strongly encrypted data, but he will never find the decryption key on the machine anywhere. It simply is not there.
Needless to say that a backup of your online billing system is automatically created each day without your intervention, so you can be sure that your financial information will never disappear.
How does the service handle sensitive data?
Online customers normally do not learn much about what happens on the server when they provide sensible information to an online service. Let's have a closer look what's different with Secure Online Bills.
Everything starts with a customer signing up for the service.
There has to be a delay between the signing up and the acceptance of the application.
It's easy to see why!It'll take manual action for the business owner (the manager for short) to provide a new encrypted database for the new customer, because the key has to be provided from outside the system to make it secure. In the meantime all information which was entered during the signup process must be stored encrypted. This is done using asymmetric encryption keys.
All these processes will be carried out when the business owner logs into his control panel and adds the new customer to the system. At this point the secret from outside has to be provided to get access to the stored information about the new customer. Nothing on the server can be read without this external secret.
On the other hand it's not so easy to ensure that the external secret is never stored on the server. Of course, all and every communication between the manager and the server has to be protected with a secure SSL connection. At the same time, you have to make sure that the webserver software does not store traces of exchanged information in log files or system error messages. Contiuously monitoring the server is vital , but it is not enough.
What makes this service reliable and secure is the fact that in every single case in which sensible information is needed, the secret used to access this information has to be entered into the system by the person who is responsible for running the service, the manager or the customer, respectively. Both persons have access to the information by logging into their control panel during their 10 minutes long SSL secured session online.
I'm not giving away too much about what's going on behind the sceenes.
It's this information that puts your customers into a position to make informed decisions, to access whether or not to trust in an online service like Secure Online Bills.
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