Technology
The RI3K Trading Service runs on an electronic infrastructure built in-house by RI3K’s technology engineers.
Development
RI3K is a recognised pioneer and innovator of technology within the reinsurance industry. In 2000, RI3K created something never previously attempted: the analysis and digitisation of the entire reinsurance placement process into an application serving a global industry. Delivered on the then fledgling Web, this was a dramatically new approach for companies looking to perform their business process electronically.
Since 2000, RI3K has expanded rapidly on this solid platform by offering other extended services. A central premise to RI3K’s technology strategy is “Services not packaged software”. This is achieved through modular and componentised applications: available standalone or as a complete integrated Trading Service.
Security
RI3K has been designed to meet industrial security standards, with the following components and procedures:
- Enterprise strength Firewalls
- 24×7 Intrusion Detection Services (IDS)
- Quarterly vulnerability scans conducted by external 3rd party security company
- Unique user identification for user account logon
- Passwords and 128 bit SSL encryption over the Internet
- Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) using digital certificates for authentication
Hosting
RI3K systems are hosted in secure enterprise facilities provided by NTT Online in London, UK and Frankfurt, Germany.
Fully managed hosting services provide 24 hour monitoring and support to ensure availability, reliability and security of the RI3K systems.
RI3K has its own dedicated storage facilities and dedicated back-up infrastructure, not shared - a common area for security breaches - together with additional secure off-site storage.
Business continuity is provided by a second disaster recovery site hosted in Frankfurt.
Optimum end user performance, regardless of the user’s physical location, is provided by RI3KNet, a high speed global network platform. RI3KNet allows users to access the RI3K services via a local access node using standard Internet, or via a private connection to the RI3KNet creating a secure global community network.