Storage
Census data is stored in Microsoft Azure infrastructure that is protected by industry-leading physical security systems and is compliant with a comprehensive portfolio of standards and regulations. Our databases support server-side encryption via the Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) feature and client-side encryption via the Always Encrypted feature. Any threats on Azure Storage, including access from an unusual location, unusual anonymous access, unusual data extraction or an unexpected delete, are detected and acted upon immediately.
Compliance
Azure has compliance with national, regional, and industry-specific requirements governing the collection and use of data. It is designed with industry-leading security controls, compliance tools, and privacy policies to safeguard your data in the cloud, including the different categories of personal data. Our platform is built on a secure foundation where you can achieve compliance more readily, allowing you to enable privacy-sensitive cloud scenarios with confidence.
Security
Census is built upon best-in- class multi-layered security provided by Microsoft Azure. Our infrastructure has a state-of-art threat detection system to identify, detect and investigate threats, identities and malicious actions. With Azure’s security center, anomalous database access and query patterns, SQL injection attacks, and other threats targeting your SQL databases can be detected and mitigated. It also addresses vulnerabilities in web applications deployed in the cloud by flagging behavior that could pass through web application firewall instruments. Our infrastructure uses the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol to protect data when it is travelling between the cloud services and customers, providing strong authentication, message privacy, integrity, interoperability, algorithm flexibility, and ease of use. Our connections also use RSA-based 2,048-bit encryption key lengths, and this makes it difficult for someone to intercept and access data that is in transit. This means that not only is your data safe -and confidential, but collaboration with your colleagues is also real-time.