DSEasy General Technical
Specification for Client PCs
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Outline
Browser-Based
DS Easy Extranet provides training and
workstation risk evaluation to the user entirely via the internet
browser on the workstation computer. All administration and
DSE
Assessor tools are also delivered via a browser. Email alerts
are
issued by the system and require the user to have access to an email
client to receive them.
Web compliance
The DS Easy Extranet web application
conforms to XHTML 1.0 Strict and CSS 2 web standards.
DDA compliance
The DS Easy Extranet web application
complies with w3.org guidelines on Disability and Discrimination Act
compliance.
Workstation Requirements
Workstation
CPU 400 MHz +
Browser
IE 5.5+ or
Mozilla Firefox 1.0+
Plugins and Browser Features
required
Flash V 4 + (DSEasy plus only) Javascript,
Cookies, Adobe Acrobat Reader for Admin and Assessors.
In-House Integration
Network connectivity
To access the DS Easy Extranet web application each workstation will
require a connection to the DS Easy server on the internet.
If
workstations require access to no other servers on the internet
configuration of the company proxy server can specify the DS Easy
server on a white list to control access to the public internet.
XML data interface
All import of user lists and export of user and report data is via XML
and must confirm to DS Easy schemas.
Email SMTP
Users will require a public email address to receive email
notifications from The DS Easy Extranet web application.
Security
Measures
For
a fuller DSEasy Security specification, follow this link.
Basic Information:
Data
All passwords provided by the user to
access
their accounts are kept private on the system and stored using one way
encryption. Passwords are reset with a system password that
users
can replace with their chosen private password. DSEasy has
been
developed to OWASP standards.
Optional Extra: Network
The DS Easy Extranet web application is
hosted on an Apache SSL web server which encrypts all traffic with 128
bit encryption.
Reliability
Server
The DS Easy Extranet web application is
hosted on
a secure Apache Server. Based on Unix technology the server
provides the most secure and robust platform available.
Audit Trails
System data and key activity by both administrators and workstation
users is stored in logs ensuring complete audit trails.
Backups
Nightly backups are transferred offsite to a backup server and saved in
an encrypted file on a remote server.
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