Web Services Trust Language (WS-Trust)Ĭlick here to read more about the WS-Trust specification. When a user authenticates to their TechSmith Knowmia instance and their TechSmith Knowmia instance needs to pull data from another backend service in the TechSmith Cloud in order to make sure they are authorized to access the content, the calls must contain valid 0Auth2 access tokens, and the request and data is transmitted over HTTPS.ĠAuth2 is also used when a user authenticates with a third-party identity provider such as Google or Twitter. Quizzing data - Windows Azure SQL databaseĬlick here to read the official documentation concerning the 0Auth2 protocol.ĠAuth2 is used in TechSmith Knowmia, so that different components of the solution can communicate with one another in a secure manner.Video file data - Windows Azure storage.TechSmith Identity - Windows Azure storage.Video Transcoding Workflow - SQL server on a Windows Azure virtual machine.Short URLs - Windows Azure SQL database.The following are used in TechSmith Knowmia: Depending on the type of data, this data is stored in SQL server storage, Azure table storage, and Azure Blob storage across multiple Azure subscriptions. Windows Azure data storage provides both high availability with a 99.9% guaranteed uptime, with great scalability, and built-in data redundancy across multiple data stores and locations. Windows Azure geographically redundant storage is used to store the authentication, user, video, and quiz data that is presented in TechSmith Knowmia.

TechSmith Knowmia Data Storage Windows Azure - Geographically Redundant StorageĬlick here to read the official documentation for Windows Azure data storage. If you have further questions regarding data security, please don’t hesitate to contact us. The main security elements are listed below. TechSmith Knowmia data is stored in several elements, all with separate security levels. TechSmith Knowmia (Formerly TechSmith Relay) Solution Security

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