Security

Security is something we take very seriously. Your data is encrypted using the key you entered when you installed the software and a 128bit SSL Certificate. Combined this ensures world class security for your data.  Your encryption key is never transmitted to the data centre and all the data stored on our servers is meaningless without the key.  

A 128-bit key size has 2128 or around 3.4 x 1038 possible combination. Even if you have the world’s best super computer, it would take 8.77 x 1017 years to test all combinations. Assuming your have the super computer, ASCI White built by IBM with 8192 processors available to you.

To use brute force attack (checking all combinations) on this encryption algorithm. It would take 876530835323573935 years or 8.77 x 1017 years to successfully try all combinations. You can be sure that your data stored on our server is 100% secured.

NOTE: Ensure you keep your encryption key safe, without you cannot restore your files and neither can we - your files will forever be meaningless garble.

Extra Security

Mirrored Data
To ensure that you data is secure all the data stored in our primary data centre is mirrored to our secondary data centre so we can guarantee that your data will always be available, 24 hours a day 365 days a year.

Hackersafe
Start IT Services uses Hackersafe to ensure the integrity of our website and the security of your data. Hackersafe tries to hack into our website and the backend servers that store your data every day to ensure they are safe from all vulnerabilities. The Hackersafe seal on our webpage is your guarantee that our backup servers are safe. To view the certificate for this website please click here.