Data Security: Important for Everyone

When the COVID-19 Pandemic hit in 2020, the world seemed to stop. But one thing that didn’t stop was cybercrimes. If anything, the pandemic brought these illegal actives even more so to the forefront. From stealing a person’s identity to scams to steal someone’s unemployment or relief money, there was a great spike in events like these. That is one of the many reasons why data security is so important.

Individuals and businesses alike must take data security very seriously. In an age where we, as individuals, live more of our lives online than ever before, this has never been a truer statement. From a business standpoint, the same can be said. More and more data is being taken and stored “in the cloud”. While this makes things much more convenient and can often lead to time saving for employees, a data breach can bring all that saving down to a loss very quickly.

When your business saves its data, there can be millions upon millions of private information points that could be the key to your business growing, or having it come crashing down. In the wrong hands, private data can mean doomsday is coming for any business. That is why, at Kaye, your data security is taken so seriously. Whether it’s in a cloud-based system, such as our LabWatch IoT, or even in our more physical, on-site products, such as the Validator AVS, data security is always a top priority.

With LabWatch IoT, security features come in from the edge to the data stored in the cloud. The use of a Virtual Private Network (VPN) by LabWatch IoT to connect to your site keeps your data secure and encrypted for outbound only transportation to the cloud. Each session requires a digitally signed certificate in both directions. Once data hits the cloud it is also protected then by a secure cloud-based storage system, so there are two levels of security built into your monitoring system.

As described in the previous section, your data is transported, encoded, and encrypted before it is stored. Once the data arrives, it is stored in a proprietary time-series database scheme designed for high performance and high security. This is your own data store. Each data store is built and proven to hold millions and millions of tags over years of collection. This proprietary database is optimized for both insertion and retrieval.

The data store is designed for high performance visual retrieval as well. This allows thousands of visualization clients to access this information for processing at micro-second rates. In addition to the insertion and retrieval performance, you can rest assured knowing your data is continuously backed up from any potential failure or disaster.

Labwatch IoT Visualization comes with web browser clients and native mobile clients for tablets and smart phones. Each visualization solution is secure through multiple methods from encryption to encoding, making it more secure than your online banking connection. On top of the secure transfer methods, LabWatch IoT is built with an intelligent authentication and authorization layer used not to only allow your access in but limits the information you see and have access to. It is designed to authenticate you uniquely and based on "WHO YOU ARE". You become authorized to access sets of information designed specifically for you.

The Authorization and Authentication service allows you to tie login credentials directly to your organizations single sign-on (SSO) provider via industry leading SAML 2.0 technology In addition to authorization assurance, all browse, or mobile session data is secured and encrypted via our SSL certificate exchange featuring industry leading SHA-2 and 2048-bit encryption.

Now pause for moment and think about that, you have been through three layers of security already - a trusted connection complete with encryption, an authenticated login in, and authorization layer for access to your navigation. Lastly, the Cloud Platform is designed for Good Manufacturing Practices or what is typical referred to as the “GxP Cloud”. The LabWatch IoT Cloud is designed for GxP to ensure you meet your regulatory requirements.

Capabilities like complete audit trail at the system and application layers are available today. Core regulatory compliance capabilities such as Electronic Signature and Alert Acknowledgement Tracking are designed right into the platform. And with a complete reporting for verification, this cloud platform is designed for you.

LabWatch IoT Architecture is designed with security first, starting with the technology and with best-in-class practices of IT secure layering in mind. Our team of cloud experts monitors the security end to end, layer by layer, continuously. You can be confident in knowing that your data, access, and equipment is secure and powered by experts on Industrial Internet software and the Cloud Operations.

In today's connected world of machines and people, your information is your most important asset. LabWatch IoT ensures that your information is available, secure, anytime, and anywhere.

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