Resilient Youth Australia
IT Security Policy

Server Security

The Resilient Youth Australia platform incorporates a dedicated instance on a dedicated Amazon account (Amazon Web Services or AWS) which features a state-of-the-art cloud-based server management system.

Resilient Youth Australia maintains its own database solution akin to a hub and spoke model. If there is any risk of a solution or database being compromised this is limited only to the single customer instance. 

Features of a dedicated AWS instance include:

• Direct control over the location for the database (selected dedicated server instance in Sydney);

• The solution sitting in its own database, on its on dedicated AWS server, selected in Sydney;

• State-of-the-art firewalls;

• The database and the solution will only be accessible on demand with 1024-bit encryption;

• Access will be locked down, with single IP access only if required from the Resilient Youth Australia office.

This system is preferable to other cloud-based Software-As-A-Service (SAAS) CRM Solutions, as these SAAS solutions have a significant number of clients sitting in the same database and server. This increases the risk of data compromisation and provides an ability for hackers to potentially gain access to the entire solution and all data for all customers in the database. 

Application Security  

Within the Resilient Youth Australia solution user access is strictly maintained and based upon a logical hierarchy of data access based upon roles and requirements for staff.

Security features for access to the application include:

• All access to the system is done via industry secure socket layer (SSL) using TLS 1.2 [ensuring that all user access in encrypted];

• Named User access for each user;

• User access can be disabled instantly, and/or expiring on a predefined set date;

• Minimum password complexity requirements set for each user;

• 2 Factor Authentication for all users;

• Brute force lockout – IP Access is temporarily restricted after a set number of failed login attempts;

• Customer access limited to a small set of selected data for their own clients on a need-to-know basis;

• Bank Account details for the payments engine will be not be stored in the same database with the main customer information.

Backups & DRP

Resilient Youth Australia maintains a rigorous and detailed set of Disaster Recovery Plans (DRP) and data backups. As a general rule, all Resilient Youth Australia instances are backed up on a daily basis, with daily backups kept for six months and monthly beyond that. Backups are maintained in two locations – the main server location and a secondary remote backup with AWS.

 An AWS dedicated server will [at a minimum] include a daily database snapshot. In addition, a secondary backup will be maintained in a separate selected data centre in Sydney.