The Orthodox Encrypted Data Room

The Orthodox team takes security very seriously. One of our core founding principles is to use state-of-the-art security protocols (and one of our core founders is a world-class digital security expert). A related core founding principle is to deliver this security without diminishing the user experience. Customers rightly want their documents to be secure. They also rightly want to be able to use the product in a practical, seamless fashion.

At Orthodox, we give you both security and usability.

A key component of security for our customers is encryption. As soon as you upload your documents into Orthodox, our system encrypts them. When an authorized user needs to access the documents, they are decrypted.

In case you want more detail, the basic technical approach is encryption of user data at rest via AES-256. (Like you, we are aware Wikipedia’s not perfect, but you can read more about this subject here).

And, perhaps it goes without saying, but we will say it, anyway: Orthodox uses Transport Layer Security (TLS, often known as HTTPS) to protect data during read/write operations/transmission over the Internet.

For core storage functions, our team carefully selected the Google Cloud infrastructure. As they say on their site: “Cloud Storage manages server-side encryption keys on your behalf using the same hardened key management systems that we use for our own encrypted data, including strict key access controls and auditing.”

We’ll blog more about additional security features, options, practices and protocols over time.

Meanwhile, let’s get started storing, organizing, filing, and smoothly retrieving your important documents!