
Andar e-Community Suite is a highly secure website system that is hosted by your organization. This means that you keep complete control of your data--it never needs to leave your organization.
When using Application Service Providers (ASPs), data needs to be moved between your organization and the ASP's system. This can expose your data as it travels through the Internet. Also, multiple copies of your data could be left unprotected on numerous workstations used in the transfer process. Because Andar is hosted by your organization, these situations never occur.
Andar e-Community Suite has numerous security features that ensure your data is kept secure:
- The Andar database is secured behind your firewall, thus protecting your data from intruders, while the Andar e-Community Suite website is accessible in a secured demilitarized zone (DMZ).
- The Andar database is further protected using two levels of SQL Authentication and application-level security that limit exposures. Users of Andar are even prevented from accessing the database through other software such as MS Excel or MS Access unless specifically authorized.
- Sensitive data such as donor bank account numbers (for EFT) and credit card numbers are encrypted in the Andar database using industry-standard 3DES encryption.
- The Andar e-Community Suite is developed using industry-standard methodologies and follows the “Open Web Application Security Project” (OWASP) guidelines (http://www.owasp.org).
- The Andar e-Community Suite has been audited by many of our customers as well as by Buchanan Associates using white-box methodologies.

Andar e-Community Suite is a rapidly growing product. Soon web visitors will be tracked and analyzed as they visit your e-Community website. Their interests will be calculated and made available to your Andar direct marketing campaigns as well as being used to customize web page content to further entice them to play a more significant role with your organization and community. Affiliated agencies will be able to publish website content that can be targeted to web visitors based on their interests and pages visited.
All of these functions enable nonprofit organizations to better service their communities and to better communicate with their constituents through one powerful point of contact–-the World Wide Web.

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