Data security has been considered to be the soft underbelly of the Software as a Service model.

However, the reality, at least the way we implement the SaaS model here at web2expense.com, has been a lot different.

Why?

Because we as Beyond Portals have made security and data privacy our top concern since day number one.

That’s why we have built our enterprise system on the super secure IBM Domino platform.

When our Marketing Director says to steal data from Web2Expense is harder than “to steal gold from Fort Knox,” he is not exactly exaggerating.

First off, we use a lot fewer number of communication ports than a majority of enterprise systems out there. That’s where real security begins.

The more doors and windows you have into a system, the more vulnerabilities you create. That has been the chief architectural weakness of many enterprise systems out there.

Secondly, all our system processes and communications are encoded and tagged with unique hard-to-break URLs and internal identifiers. Those pointers are extremely hard to duplicate randomly. That is another level of security built right into the system.

Thirdly, a visitor needs to enter not only her User ID and Password but her Company ID as well to access any of her data. There are other system security features of Web2Expense that we’ll analyze in our posts.

To sum – yes, security IS an important issue for all online browser-based solutions. We recognize that today and we recognized it back in 2005 when we started to develop our travel and expense solution. That’s why we can offer it proudly today as the solution that will serve all road warriors exceptionally well.

(See this post on physical data security)