The question of the handling of personally identifiable information comes up occasionally in a prospective customer’s evaluation of AffirmX. Philosophically, AffirmX only wants to look at documents and reports that specifically address issues related to regulatory compliance. Unfortunately, some of these documents will contain PII even though it is extraneous to the document review that [...]
Back in my first IT job, a top-notch network security guy was asked about keeping computers secure (we were working for a Navy contractor and this was at the dawn of the modern browser based internet in 1996). He was an expert in everything from Slackware to Frank Zappa to Algorithm Design to Submarine Embedded [...]
AffirmX is a cloud-based application that is accessible through a standard web browser. We make every effort to test the application on the most popular browsers – Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, Opera and Safari. Other than a browser there is no software which needs to be installed to run the AffirmX platform. All workpapers (reviews [...]
Let's start with the Wikipedia definition: “Cloud computing is the use of computing resources (hardware and software) which are available in a remote location and accessible over a network (typically the Internet). The name comes from the common use of a cloud-shaped symbol as an abstraction for the complex infrastructure it contains in system diagrams. [...]