QuickBooks remote access security features

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 QuickBooks remote access 

Remote Access provides several security features to protect your remote computer and data from unauthorized access.

Strong data encryption—Remote Access secures all connections that you establish with a remote computer with a proprietary encryption format. All data that traverses an Remote Access connection—including screen images, file transfers, and keyboard and mouse input—is fully encrypted. For even greater security, your Remote Access Web site can be configured to use 128-bit SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) data encryption—the leading Internet standard for securing data transmission.

Multi-level authentication—To access a computer remotely, you must authenticate yourself at two levels:

At the first level, you must log in to your Remote Access Web site, using your email address and the password for your account.

At the second level, you must provide a unique access code that you specify. You can choose one of two methods of second-level authentication—access code authentication or phone authentication.

If you choose access code authentication, you must provide a unique password to access a remote computer (for best security, regularly change all passwords). This password resides only on the remote computer—not on a Remote Access Server. For even greater security, you can choose phone authentication, in which a Remote Access Server calls you at a phone number that you specify. You must then provide a unique pass code, using your phone's keypad, to access the remote computer.

Hardware locking—Once you establish a connection with a remote computer, you can disable the computer keyboard and mouse, thereby preventing anyone at the remote location from using the computer.

Private screen—Once you establish a connection with a remote computer, you can make the computer's screen blank, thereby preventing anyone at the remote location from viewing the contents on the screen.

Remote system locking—Before you end a Remote Access session, you can access options to log off from or lock a remote computer that is running Windows NT or 2000, by sending a Ctrl+Alt+Del command to the computer.

Connection time-out—You can specify a number of minutes after which a Remote Access session automatically ends if there is no activity. A time-out period prevents a remote computer from inadvertently being left online for long periods of time and exposing it to hacker attacks. Access sessions that are inactive for 30 minutes will terminate automatically.

Application-level access control—You can set up Remote Access so you can access only specific applications on a remote computer, rather than its entire desktop. This options prevents remote access to other applications and data on the desktop, and network resources.

Status logging—The Access Anywhere Agent keeps a log of all changes to the status of a remote computer. The log includes the IP address of any computer that establishes a remote connection to the computer. You can check the log to verify that no unauthorized access has occurred

How does remote access work in QuickBooks Premier?

Does the computer need to be turned on? Who will see me working remotely?  How many computers can I remotely access? Does QuickBooks need to be installed on both the remote and the host computer?  Answers to these questions and more. See QuickBooks Remote Access

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