Developed in Darmstadt, hosted in Frankfurt.
Data security
5 POINT AG uses state-of-the-art internet technology to host the teamspace servers.
The teamspace servers are provided through a cluster system. All data is held on mirrored network storage. A full backup is created once a day and stored on our backup servers. Only selected members of staff have access to the data.
All 5 POINT AG servers are located in a high-security data centre in Germany certified to DIN ISO/IEC 27001. They are protected against natural disasters as well as against power failures and unauthorised access from outside.
Our security measures
These are the measures we have in place for running teamspace:
- Hosting on our own hardware, on encrypted hard drives in Frankfurt am Main with the provider Aixit (ISO certified)
- Backups covering the last 7 days plus 4 weekly and 3 monthly sets
- Backups are held geo-redundantly at two separate sites
- Regular checks of the update status of our server software
- Browser connections for users only with current TLS encryption standards
- Development in Darmstadt, entirely in-house. Access to source code and developer tools is secured with VPN
- The PCs and laptops of all members of staff are encrypted
- Video surveillance in the entrance area
- Annual security training for all members of staff, and additionally whenever someone joins
Encryption
All traffic between browser and server runs over HTTPS. We only allow current TLS versions, renew the certificates regularly and check the servers for known vulnerabilities.
Storage is encrypted too: the hard drives in the data centre that hold your data are encrypted.
Security within the company
teamspace is developed entirely in-house in Darmstadt. Access to source code and developer tools is secured with VPN.
The PCs and laptops of all members of staff are encrypted, and the entrance area is covered by video surveillance. Once a year we run security training for all members of staff, and new colleagues are trained as soon as they join.
Network connectivity
All servers are connected directly to a dedicated, high-speed European gigabit backbone. This backbone has direct high-speed connections to the major providers and to the largest European exchange points, such as the DE-CIX in Frankfurt. The entire backbone is built with multiple levels of redundancy in a ring topology, so that the servers stay reachable even if 60% of the technology fails.
The data centre
Aixit operates several data centres across Germany and, among other locations, in Amsterdam, Vienna and Zurich. The 5 POINT AG servers are hosted in Frankfurt am Main. The data centre in Frankfurt am Main has redundant building entry points from 30 carriers and offers bandwidth of more than 4 Tbit.