Published 09/28/2022

Secure, Cloud-Based ERP System Protects Shop Data

ProShop SAFE limits a shop’s Controlled Unclassified Information footprint. The software simplifies and economizes compliance efforts, as well as protects other sensitive company and customer data.

Edited by: Chris Pasion

Managing Editor, Modern Machine Shop | Production Machining

Photo Credit: Getty Images

The ProShop SAFE (Secure Access File Ecosystem) from ProShop ERP is a secure, cloud-based ERP file management system that enables companies to achieve multi-dimensional, roll-/user-based data security compliance to multiple standards such as NIST 800-171, CMMC, ITAR, HIPAA, SOC, GDPR and ISO-2700X.

ProShop SAFE is said to ensure that only authorized users have access to specific files and folders managed through the unified credentials and authentication of their ProShop login. According to the company, ProShop SAFE, combined with ProShop’s GovCloud hosting suite of features, dramatically limits a shop’s Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) footprint and thereby simplifies and economizes compliance efforts, as well as protects other sensitive company and customer data.

Beyond facilitating achievement of CMMC and ITAR standards, ProShop SAFE also reportedly ensures that an employee cannot accidentally delete or move critical information they are not authorized to act on. ProShop ERP says ProShop SAFE is the only shop management ERP/MES/QMS software specifically designed for defense and aerospace CNC machining and manufacturing with these levels of security controls.

ProShop SAFE is a managed encrypted file store that securely and seamlessly translates into the browser experience. User-definable File Access Security Groups (FASG) within the user module of ProShop enable security administrators to define permissions of all folders and files within the file store, and provide read/write/execute, or forbid access, to any configuration of approved folders, subfolders and files.

When a ProShop login is authenticated via a user’s ProShop credentials and Two-Factor Authentication (if enabled), the files and images are immediately available and visible in the ProShop browser interface. The user can view and
manipulate those files with the secure cloud file store and in-memory of the device, without the need for them to be downloaded to the user’s device. According to ProShop, this limits the storage footprint of CUI information within a shop and makes it considerably simpler to achieve CMMC and ITAR requirements for control of CUI. When the ProShop session is closed, the file store is immediately removed and access to any files within it is terminated.