Data Availability¶
Reliable and uninterrupted access to critical credentials is crucial for businesses to operate seamlessly. When a solution that regulates access to sensitive credentials is down, the critical business operations suffer and at times fail. Scenarios such as server crashes or physical damage to machines are very real and to prevent unnecessary downtime, Securden has deployed redundancies and secondary application servers that provide continuous availability of credentials.
Scalable design to handle huge quantities of requests¶
The solution is hosted in various data centers around the world. Organizations from different locations will use the data center that is geographically closest. Databases specific to the data center will only accept connections from the application server(s). Within a data center, multiple application servers will be used along with a load balancer for optimum scalability.
All application servers are deployed in AWS and have the same security measures. AWS provides an RDS PostgreSQL database which is redundant and highly available.
Emergency access¶
In Securden, you can enable a designated list of users to access all passwords (work accounts) stored in Securden, breaking the usual access controls. This is to meet password access needs during certain emergencies. Users who are given this privilege will be able to configure the emergency access.
Design Highlights
- Database backup
- Emergency access