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Recent media reports suggested that a hacker successfully gained entry to the National Traffic Information System (eNaTIS). The reports in question were apparently based on the fact that someone had left a comment on one of the pages within the eNaTIS public Web site (this site). The suggestion that the eNaTIS was hacked is laughable since the eNaTIS public Web site is not connected to the eNaTIS in any way. This was a deliberate design choice.
The eNaTIS cannot be accessed via this Web site.
The
fact of the matter is that the eNaTIS Web site runs within a public
hosting area on a public hosting service. The hosting service is not
inside the eNaTIS data centre and there is absolutely no connection of
any kind between this Web site and the eNaTIS itself. The Department
of Transport deliberately decided to host this Web site and the eNaTIS
on completely different servers to ensure that any hacking attempts
would be fruitless.
Any attempt to hack this Web site (www.enatis.com) in order to gain access to the eNaTIS would be futile. The eNaTIS can only be accessed from workstations that are authorised to access the system. In addition, all communication with the eNaTIS is encrypted and a pre-defined user name and password are needed to connect to the system. An eNaTIS user will only be given access to the system after signing a confidentiality agreement regulating the security of passwords. The South African public can rest assured that the eNaTIS is and remains highly secure, and that its database cannot be accessed via this Web site.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 06 December 2007 )
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