Data Security
Student Financial Aid Services is committed to protecting your personal data.
We adhere to the highest industry standards and work with recognized security industry leaders in an effort
to ensure your information is protected.
Our approach is to:
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Make critical investments in state-of-the-art tools for monitoring our systems both internally
and externally, including using software that performs comprehensive analysis of
real-time data movement to detect intrusions
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Follow the Federal Trade Commission's and International Organization for Standardization's recommended best practices for securing data
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Maintain a culture of security awareness through employee training and strict
enforcement of security policies, including a stringent identity verification protocol to grant access to client account information over the phone
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Maintain a current Written Information Security Policy (WISP)
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Third Party Protection
We also use third party monitoring, certification, and audit systems, all of which are recognized industry leaders in their fields:
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VeriSign
VeriSign, an SSL provider (Certificate Authority), verifies an organization's
right to use a domain name and other required identification similar to the way a
government agency verifies a birth date before issuing an identification card.
Using authentication and encryption, it also ensures all data and payment transactions
completed on a website are secure. VeriSign is the most used and trusted SSL provider – its seal
is viewed up to 650 million times per day on over 100,000 websites in 165 countries. VeriSign
also conducts an annual audit of our company to ensure complete compliance with their strict security requirements.
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McAfee
The McAfee SECURE trustmark only appears on websites that have passed an intensive, daily security scan.
McAfee tests for possible personal information access, links to dangerous sites, phishing,
and other online dangers to ensure you are protected from identity theft, viruses, spyware,
and additional threats. Our McAfee certification signifies that we operate at the highest level of security.
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TRUSTe
Companies that display the TRUSTe seal comply with the highest standards for protecting your personal information.
TRUSTe conducts audits of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy to ensure we are not only handling and protecting your personal
data in accordance with those policies, but also that those policies are fair.
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Better Business Bureau (BBB)
The BBB assigns ratings to businesses by evaluating them in 16 categories.
These ratings represent the BBB’s degree of confidence that the business is operating in a trustworthy manner
and will make a good faith effort to resolve any customer concerns. Businesses can receive ratings as high as A+
and as low as F. Student Financial Aid Services has been a BBB accredited business since August 20, 1998, and is consistently awarded their highest A+ rating.
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