Initial Setup Tasks

When you subscribe to Taskmonk, we send you separate emails containing the credentials required to log into your account. This is a Super-Administrator login. Once you log into your instance, you must perform the following tasks to get started:

• Change your password

• Create Administrator Users. See Creating Users.

• Manage Roles. See Managing Roles in Taskmonk.

Security in Taskmonk

Role-Based Access Control

• Taskmonk enables you to allow access to granular data and functions based on the role assigned to a user.

• Your organization's data governance standards can easily be mapped onto Taskmonk.

Privacy

• Taskmonk has no in-built tracking.

• We do not use cookies or any other fingerprinting technology.

• Serverless Authentication: All our key management is done through Google Firebase, ensuring that Taskmonk never has access to your passwords.

Data Security

• By default, users are denied access to all data and functions.

• With Taskmonk, your data stays where you want it to be. Taskmonk can render data directly on to the platform from your database, without it ever reaching Taskmonk’s servers.

• If you choose to host your data with us, we ensure that all our data centers are SOC 2, ISO 27001, and HITRUST compliant.

Secure and Scalable Infrastructure

• All our data is stored in physically secure Microsoft Azure facilities that include 24X7 onsite security, camera surveillance, and more. For more information see Azure security documentation.

• All our databases operate in a cluster configuration ensuring data redundancy and resilience.

• Taskmonk’s application tier uses load balancing, allowing us to meet variable demand without any hiccups.

• All of our servers are within our own virtual private cloud (VPC) with network access control lists (ACLs) that prevent unauthorized requests from getting to our internal network.

Security Compliance

• SOC 2, Type 1: Taskmonk’s SOC 2 Type I report covers the trust services categories of
  Security, Confidentiality, and Availability, and is audited annually.

• All our data centers are SOC 2, ISO 27001 and HITRUST compliant.

Additional Security Measures

• Training: All employees of Taskmonk undergo mandatory annual Security and Awareness training.

• Policies: Taskmonk has developed a comprehensive set of security policies covering a range of
  topics that are shared with all employees.

• Employee Vetting: Taskmonk performs background (employment and criminal) checks on all new employees in accordance with local laws.

• Confidentiality: All employee contracts include a confidentiality agreement.