Access & Content Protection
E-assessments require a balance between accessibility for varied stakeholders and rigorous content security. With multiple collaborators involved, safeguarding exam content can be challenging. Cirrus offers robust features to ensure that exam content remains both accessible and secure.
Unique Passwords
Cirrus employs robust algorithms to handle passwords, ensuring unique combinations are known only to the user.
Single Sign-On (SSO)
Cirrus's SSO provides secure, single-step access, enhancing user experience without compromising security.
Third-Party Trust with OAuth/OpenID
Cirrus can authenticate users via trusted third-party services without ever handling sensitive login details.
IP Access Restriction
Only registered IP addresses get access. This ensures that even valid credentials can't be misused from an unfamiliar location.
Unique Session Creation
Every time you log into Cirrus, we create a unique session, tailor-made just for you. It's like having a private, secure lane on a busy digital highway.
Smart Timeout Functions
Forget to log out? No worries! Cirrus automatically ends your session after a period of inactivity and automatically at the end of every exam, reducing the risk of unauthorised access.
Ironclad Cookie Handling
Cookies aren't just for browsers; they're part of your secure connection. Cirrus transmits them only over encrypted connections, so your session stays safe.
Effective Session Destruction
When it's time to log out, Cirrus ensures that the session ends properly, leaving no loose ends. It's a well-timed farewell, ensuring the session cannot be reused.
Customised Role Definitions
Whether it's a student, teacher, or administrator, Cirrus provides crystal clear definitions for each role, mapping out what they can see and do within the platform.
Dynamic Access Management
Cirrus puts you in control, allowing fine-tuning of what each role can view, modify, create, or delete. Every interaction is tailored to fit the user's specific role.
Smart Role Hierarchies
With Cirrus, role permissions are intelligent. Higher-level roles inherit permissions from those below, creating a logical and flexible system.
Action Logging
Every user interaction is meticulously documented, enhancing transparency and user accountability.
Change Tracking
To ensure data integrity, Cirrus vigilantly monitors data and flags any unauthorised changes.
Regular Review
Periodic scans proactively identify potential security breaches or anomalies and let you address any vulnerabilities early.
Long-term Storage
Your history is safe and ready for review, facilitating compliance with regulations that require data retention.
GDPR Compliance
Your data privacy is our priority; GDPR is “the world’s toughest privacy and security law in the world.”
Industry-Specific Regulations
Tailoring to your region and industry’s unique laws.
Regular Audits
Our promise - is to continually verify our compliance.
Data Security
When it comes to e-assessment, data security is paramount. Your online exam platform handles a multitude of sensitive information, from personal user details to exam results, and any breach could lead to loss of trust, legal ramifications, and potential damage to test-takers’ futures. Cirrus’s robust security not only safeguards against these risks but also bolsters the credibility of your organisation, ensuring that you remain the preferred choice.
Data-in-Transit Encryption
Like a carefully guarded convoy, we use protocols like SSL/TLS to secure your data as it moves across the network. It's all about ensuring safe passage.
Data-at-Rest Encryption
Your data stays locked in a vault even when at rest. Cirrus encrypts data stored in databases or files, ensuring it's secure from prying eyes.
End-to-End Encryption
Your data remains in a secure channel from point A to B. Cirrus ensures that the encryption stays intact from the source to the destination, accessible only by you, the intended recipient.
Military-Grade Encryption
Security that's battle-tested. We employ advanced encryption standards, esteemed and utilised by military organisations, for fortress-like protection.
Powered by AWS
Cirrus leverages Amazon Web Services (AWS), a global leader in cloud computing, to deliver these encryption solutions. It's a partnership that equates to reliability and excellence.
Certified Trust
Cirrus is proudly ISO-27001:2013 certified, symbolising our commitment to top-tier quality management and information security practices.
Automated Compliance Checking
Regular scans using advanced tools confirm our security measures are always up to par.
Regular Updates
Our systems are fresh and resilient, always armed with the latest security patches.
Automated Patching
Swift and seamless, our tools ensure that security updates are applied immediately.
Firewalls
Cirrus's virtual moats control all traffic, allowing only the trusted and blocking the malicious.
Anti-Malware Tools
Like vigilant guards, our tools detect and eradicate viruses, spyware, and ransomware.
Penetration Testing (Pen Testing)
We proactively identify vulnerabilities through simulated cyberattacks, ensuring robust defences that are aligned with industry best practices.
Regular Backups
Your valuable data is mirrored in a secure haven, ready to be restored if needed.
Redundant Systems
Our backup systems are waiting in the wings, ready to take over if needed.
Disaster Recovery Planning
Strategic and well-rehearsed plans ensure a quick recovery from any unexpected hiccup.
GDPR Compliant
Respecting your privacy is at our core, and we handle your data in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation.
Cheating Prevention & Detection
As the volume and sophistication of cheating methods grow, the tools to counteract them must evolve with equal vigour. Cirrus provides a comprehensive suite of tools designed to preemptively combat and detect cheating, ensuring that every assessment remains a true reflection of the test-taker’s abilities. From randomised exams and advanced proctoring to plagiarism detection, we employ a multi-pronged approach to maintain the sanctity of the e-assessment process.
Unique Test Versions
Cirrus assembles tests from the item bank based on your blueprint, ensuring different test-takers encounter unique questions. This creativity in design thwarts collaboration and answer-sharing.
Item Exposure Control
Cirrus limits the exposure of specific questions, deterring large-scale information sharing and future cheating endeavours. Our unique algorithm ensures the questions remain fresh and unpredictable.
Integration with Other Security Measures
LOFT isn't alone; it's part of Cirrus's robust security approach, harmonising with proctoring, browser lockdowns, and IP tracking for an unbreachable testing environment.
Real-Time Surveillance
Human proctors monitor the examination process in real-time.
Interaction Capability
Proctors can communicate with candidates, offering guidance or addressing concerns.
Multi-Camera Support
Multiple angles ensure comprehensive oversight.
Instant Reporting
Immediate alerts for any suspicious activity.
Customisable Rules
Tailor the proctoring process to fit your examination protocols.
Automated Surveillance
AI algorithms meticulously track student behaviour.
Behavioural Analysis
Includes keystroke dynamics, mouse movement tracking, and anomaly detection.
Facial Recognition
Ensures that the registered student is the one taking the exam.
Program and Website Whitelisting
Allow access to approved resources only.
Customisable Rules
Tailor the proctoring process to fit your examination protocols.
Integration with Other Tools
Works seamlessly with other Cirrus security features for all-around protection.
Safe Exam Browser
Lock students into the Cirrus exam environment, keeping distractions, cheating, and unauthorised access at bay.
Schoolyear
Locks down the whole device, not just the browser, blocking AI tools, virtual machines and remote access.
Fullscreen Mode
Immerse candidates in the exam, and prevent them from using external tools like ChatGPT, Wikipedia, etc.
Clipboard Disabling
Prevent candidates from copying exam content or pasting unauthorised material.
Single-Screen Use
Restrict candidates to a singular view, eliminating any attempts to reference other materials or applications.
Cache Clearing
Wipe clean any browsing data after the exam, ensuring that no exam content can be stored or shared.
Advanced Content Matching
Turnitin employs sophisticated algorithms that detect not just direct copies, but also paraphrased or rewritten content, ensuring a comprehensive check for authenticity.
AI-generated Content Detection
Stay ahead of modern cheating methods. Turnitin can identify content that's been generated by artificial intelligence like ChatGPT, ensuring genuine human effort behind every submission.
Seamless Dashboard Integration
Our platform is integrated seamlessly with Turnitin, making it easy for instructors to review originality reports, pinpoint potential issues, and provide necessary feedback.
Document Source Comparison
Turnitin's vast database compares the submitted content against millions of academic papers, journals, books, and internet pages to identify any matches.
Interactive Originality Reports
These reports highlight matched content and provide a visual representation of potential plagiarism, making it easier for educators to review and for students to understand where they might have gone astray.
Time Controls
Allows you to set specific time limits on questions or the entire assessment.
Data Analysis in Invigilation Logs
Keep a watchful eye on examination activities.
Post-Assessment Evaluation
Uncover hidden cheating through detailed post-exam analysis.
Trained Invigilators
A pool of trained invigilators maintain exam integrity and monitor candidate conduct.
Standardised Equipment
All test centres are equipped with uniform technology to ensure consistency and fairness across locations.
Standardised Equipment
All test centres are equipped with uniform technology to ensure consistency and fairness across locations.
Incident Management
A robust incident management system is in place to capture and address any issues promptly and transparently.