Inclusive Security Overview
Effective September 2024
Introduction
Recruiting and HR data is critical to your business and we take the security of customer data extremely seriously. We host Inclusive using comprehensively hardened infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) platforms from Google Cloud.
Product Security
Authentication
Inclusive allows authentication from Google Workspace (formerly GSuite), Office 365 corporate accounts, magic links (sent via email), and SSO via SAML and OIDC. Inclusive does not store any passwords.
Permissions
Inclusive supports flexible permission levels for teammates. Permission levels can be set globally or within specific departments, jobs, and other organizational data.
Physical Security
Inclusive production data is processed and stored within world-renowned data centers that use state-of-the-art multilayer access, alerting, and auditing measures.
System Security
Servers and Networking
All Inclusive servers and structured datastores use managed infrastructure services provided and secured by Google Cloud.
Our web servers encrypt data in transit using the industry standard for HTTPS security (TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3) so that requests are protected from eavesdroppers and man-in-the-middle attacks. Our SSL certificates are 2048 bit RSA or 256 bit ECDSA, signed with SHA256.
Storage
All persistent data is encrypted at rest using industry-standard AES-256 algorithms.
Operational Security
Policies
Inclusive has developed a comprehensive set of security policies covering a range of topics. These policies are updated frequently and shared with all employees.
Employee Training
All Inclusive employees are trained on security best practices and awareness during onboarding. We perform annual disaster recovery and data restoration tests.
Employee Equipment
All employee computers have MDM that enforce our security policies like administrative access, screen lockout, strong passwords, encrypted disks, and virus scanners. No Windows computers or servers are used at all other than in isolated testing environments.
Employee Access
We use Google account infrastructure to verify employee account identity and require two-factor authentication for apps that access critical infrastructure or customer data.
Access to administrative interfaces additionally enforce administrator permissions where applicable, and all administrative access is logged and auditable both in the form of traditional web server logs and session recordings to make it easy to find and review any administrative activities with full fidelity.
All employee contracts include a confidentiality agreement.
Code Reviews and Production Deployment
All changes to source code are subject to automated testing and any that affect security require pre-commit code review by a qualified engineering peer that includes security, performance, and potential-for-abuse analysis.
All code is deployed to a staging environment for quality assurance and automated tests must pass prior to updating production services.
Service Levels, Backups, and Recovery
Our infrastructure utilizes multiple and layered techniques for increasingly reliable uptime, including the use of load balancing and task queues. We use highly redundant datastores, rapid recovery infrastructure, and point-in-time backups making unintentional loss of customer data very unlikely.
Application Security
Server and Client Hardening
Inclusive servers use Cloudflare and Google Cloud managed infrastructure which utilize firewalls to restrict system access from external and internal networks, DDoS mitigation, spoofing and sniffing protections, and port scanning. Request-handling code paths have frequent user re-authorization checks, payload size restrictions, rate limiting where appropriate, and other request verification techniques. All requests are logged and searchable by operations staff.
Client code utilizes multiple techniques to ensure that using the Inclusive app is safe and that requests are authentic, including XSS and CSRF protection, signed and encrypted user authentication cookies, and session expiration.
Pentests
We engage third-party security experts to perform detailed penetration tests on the Inclusive app and infrastructure.
API and Integrations
Access to the Inclusive RPC API endpoints requires an access key that can be regenerated on demand by customers.
Integrations with other apps are all opt-in and authenticate via OAuth or other applicable mechanisms required by the third party app. Integrations can be disabled at any time.
Incident Reporting
Incident Response
Inclusive implements a protocol for handling security events which includes escalation procedures, rapid mitigation, and post mortem. All employees are informed of our policies.
Responsible Disclosure
If you have a security concern, question, or are aware of an incident, please send an email to security@inclusive.io, a carefully controlled and monitored email account.