Many of our customers are hosting the Voyage Management System (VMS) on their own servers behind a firewall, these are either managed and maintained by their own IT department or an external service provider.
When users want access to their voyage calculations and other features on their phones or outside of the internal network, The the systems must be made available from the internet.
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In case your company does not have an SSL certificate already, Dataloy can assist in setting this up with a "Let's Encrypt" certificate with frequent automatic renewal on a consultancy basis.
We recommend customers that have access to the system through the Internet to use network encryption.
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