FRI3D's Data Privacy & Security

We have given special attention to all aspects of FRI3D, ensuring that everything throughout its operation is as secure as possible. FRI3D has been designed with operational security and data privacy in mind. Your data stays private — in databases and on servers maintained by you.

Table of Contents

1. Your data are safe with FRI3D
2. Your systems are safe with FRI3D
3. Additional data-protection methods
4. Network licenses: NLicense Manager

Your data are safe with FRI3D

FRI3D doesn't collect or store any data that isn't relevant to the fire analysis. All of the analysis data — plant information, 3D models, scenarios, and results — is stored on your own systems, either on your local machine or your networked storage. That is determined by you.

FRI3D doesn't access any data or resources from the internet. It doesn't even need an active internet connection on the computer it runs on. The license server can be installed locally on the host machine and doesn't need access to any data stored elsewhere.

Even when FRI3D connects to your plant database or fire database, or reads your CAD and plant data to build a model, the resulting models, scenarios, and results stay on the host where they are produced. Your raw data does not leave the machine on which it is collected.

This means FRI3D can safely be used in environments that require the highest level of data isolation.

Your systems are safe with FRI3D

We are very proud that FRI3D runs as a normal system user, without any special privileges. It does not require administrator rights to install or to run — you can install it to a user-writable folder and run it as a regular user process.

Additional data-protection methods

FRI3D is a fire-analysis system. It should be protected the same way you protect all your applications. We assume FRI3D will be installed privately, for your eyes only.

FRI3D database protection

If a rogue attack does compromise your system, FRI3D's database should be protected. The easiest way is to store the database on an encrypted disk, or to apply the data-security measures used by your IT department. FRI3D does not run as a background service, so it is not constantly accessing the database — it exits and frees all resources when the FRI3D application/UI is not running.

Keep FRI3D on a private network

FRI3D is a localized application, but it is likely you will have many installations of it. If your organization has a private administration and management LAN, keep FRI3D and its data — and, for network licenses, the NLicense Manager server — on that local network only, behind your VPN. FRI3D needs no internet access to operate.

Network licenses: NLicense Manager

For networked / floating licenses, FRI3D uses NLicense Manager — a lightweight license-server application you install on a single machine in your network. FRI3D clients on the LAN check out a license from that server when they start, up to the number of licenses you have purchased, and return it when they exit.

NLicense Manager is designed to keep licensing entirely inside your environment:

• Runs locally, on your network. The license server is installed on a machine you control (a server or workstation on your LAN). It does not require internet access and does not contact any external or cloud service.
• No customer data leaves your network. NLicense Manager only manages license check-in / check-out; it does not touch your plant data, 3D models, scenarios, or results.
• Concurrent-use control. The number of simultaneously running FRI3D instances is limited to the number of floating licenses purchased; the server hands out and reclaims licenses as clients start and exit.
• Same isolation as FRI3D. Keep the NLicense Manager host on your private / administration LAN (behind your VPN, as above). Nothing about network licensing requires exposing anything to the internet.

To set up a networked or floating license, install and run NLicense Manager first, then point your FRI3D clients at it. See the Licensing Guide and the Get started page for step-by-step instructions; NLicense Manager can be downloaded from the Releases section of the Customer Portal.