About our Fax Security
Security With Your Faxed Documents
We understand how critical fax security is to your business. Instant Capital Solutions is committed to ensuring the integrity and privacy of every fax, at every level.
Technical Security: We offer various encryption methods to secure your faxes including: 128-bit SSL encryption, user validation (client ID, username/password), a secure FTP server.
Physical Security: We take a number of different measures to protect our physical infrastructure. Instant Capital Solutions’s fax data center is fully equipped with power generators, AC units, locked cabinets, as well as 24/7 key-only access and surveillance.
Organizational Security: Your faxes are kept completely private and secure at all times within our organization. Members of Instant Capital Solutions’s fax data center staff have access to customers’ information only on a need-to-know basis. We operate in an extremely secure environment.
Glossary of Security and Encryption Terms
SSL/HTTPS (Secured Socket Layers/Hyper Transfer Type Protocol Secure): Synonymous terms used to describe the standard encrypted communication mechanism on the World Wide Web. A protocol designed by Netscape Communications, SSL, is used mostly in communications between web browsers and web servers. SSL enables encrypted, authenticated communications across the Internet. URLs beginning with ‘https’ indicate that an SSL connection with 128-bit encryption will be used. SSL provides three important things: Privacy, Authentication and Message Integrity. By convention, URLs that require an SSL connection will start with ‘https’ (not‘http’). When submitting fax requests via the Internet, SSL is highly recommended to ensure that the data is encrypted.
SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol): Allows a 128-bit encrypted connection to be made to any FTP (or file transfer) location, thus creating a secure extranet for the sharing of documents and files. In other words, with SFTP all files and documents being exchanged are encrypted and authenticated with username/password. Using this method, companies can automatically “push” or “pull” their electronically faxed documents and data to/from specific client locations. SFTP is an excellent option for companies in secure environments that need an efficient way to automate their inbound or outbound fax communications.
