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Security and Trust Center

How MAAT Assess is designed to protect student information. We describe controls that exist today and label planned work as planned.

Implemented in the current build

  • Salted, memory-hard password hashing (scrypt)
  • HTTP-only session cookies with expiry; server-side session revocation on sign-out
  • Temporary account lockout after repeated failed sign-ins
  • Centralized role- and attribute-based authorization on every student-record read
  • Tenant isolation between organizations, verified by automated tests
  • Answer keys never sent to the student's browser
  • Idempotent response saving and submission
  • Immutable published item versions and versioned score records
  • Append-only audit log of sign-ins, denied access, record views, exports, and score changes

Required before production use

  • Multi-factor authentication for staff and administrators
  • Encryption at rest and encrypted, tested backups
  • Independent penetration testing and vulnerability scanning
  • Documented incident-response and disaster-recovery procedures

Certifications

MAAT Assess does not currently hold third-party security certifications. We will list certifications only after they are completed.