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Here at Lightspeed Research - The Foresight Group, we use a proprietary web-based system named Enterprise to administer, collect, process and report survey data. This advanced system provides the capacity to create surveys in multiple languages, develop customized questions and demographics for different groups within the organization, import historic data to view trends over time, and compare results to normative data.

Enterprise allows us to create and distribute total and demographic reports by department/division to thousands of managers worldwide. Because there is no software to download, managers have immediate online access to their reports via a secure password. Our proprietary survey software is written in house ... developed and fine-tuned over the course of 13+ years.

The Foresight Group uses a load-balanced cluster of IBM e-servers co-located at our ISP. The servers are configured to take very high loads, proven to handle up to 3,000 simultaneous survey participants — with a 50% increase in capability coming soon. Hundreds of thousands of survey users worldwide access our systems on a real-time basis, with no response time issues.

Our Complete Security Protects Your Data

Keeping personal information about you and your employees secure and confidential is one of our most important responsibilities. Our systems have maximum protection, so information remains secure.

The Foresight Group has secure Firewalls that protects our computer network systems that interact with the Internet — blocking unauthorized access by individuals or networks. Secure transmissions ensure information remains confidential. We use encryption technology such as Secure Socket Layer (SSL) on its Web sites to transmit information between you and Foresight. SSL technology and 128-bit encryption (scrambling) encodes information that is sent over the Internet between your computer and Foresight, helping to ensure that the information remains confidential.

Computer virus protection detects and prevents viruses from entering our network systems. Our servers' platforms run on the GNU/Linux operating system that is not affected by common viruses. They are actively patched to fix vulnerabilities.

Log Files are also used by for our clients' security. We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track users' movement, prevent unauthorized tampering with our services, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. We're constantly evaluating new advances in security technology to ensure that we provide total data protection.


Questions? Call us today at +1.847.726.4040 - ext. 267.

 

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