RI3K Technology
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.
RI3K's creative team evaluate both the functional requirements and end user's goals to ensure the user experience of their applications is intuitive and effective. Constantly innovating, they utilise the very latest Web technologies (e.g. AJAX and DHTML) to provide the familiar rich user experiences more commonly found in traditional windows applications.
RI3K's technical web team specialises in developments based on the mature and well adopted Java / J2EE technologies. By selecting 'Industry Standard' frameworks, combined with simplicity of design, RI3K's technology is guaranteed up to date and flexible to future needs. Highly skilled and motivated development staff working within an Agile development methodology ensure RI3K's technology team can respond quickly in a rapidly changing market.
Security
RI3K has been designed to meet industrial security standards, with the following components and procedures:
- Enterprise strength Firewalls
- 24x7 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 the use of an Application Delivery Network service provided by Akamai.
Further information
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The minimum system requirements to use RI3K are:
- Computer with a connection to the Internet
- A commercially supported Operating System
- Internet Explorer 6+ or Mozilla Firefox 1.5+
- A browser with JavaScript and session cookies enabled
- Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0+
- The primary browser language set to an English variant
- The browser cache set to a minimum of 200MB
- Corporate firewall enabling HTTP/S sessions, digital certificates download and authentication