Knowa
Knowa is a unique governance and collaboration hub for senior executives. It cuts out noise, saves knowledge and reduces wasted time and costs, empowering everyone to deliver modern governance with less effort.
Features
- Real time and secure Discussions and 1-1-Many Chats
- Secure and customisable Document storage
- Define custom Groups, Work streams or Sub committees
- Granular permissions and Guest access
- Add Mentions, Voting and Actions within Discussions
- Access anywhere, on any device
- Connect with external Organisations for Collaboration and Negotiations
- Track activity across Groups
Benefits
- Access all your information in one structured place
- Reduce email noise and cluttered inboxes
- Improve security and reduce risk of phishing and human error
- Capture knowledge and improve business continuity
- Improve collaboration and negotiation outcomes by working on neutral ground
- Add and remove individuals instantly minimising time to onboard stakeholders
- Ensure your team and guests can access the right information
Pricing
£0 to £3,000 an instance a year
- Education pricing available
- Free trial available
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 11
Service ID
3 3 4 1 7 3 3 7 9 2 1 2 3 2 2
Contact
Knowa
Knowa Support
Telephone: 02074341990
Email: hello@knowa.co
Service scope
- Software add-on or extension
- No
- Cloud deployment model
- Public cloud
- Service constraints
- No
- System requirements
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- Mac OS X 10.9 or later
- Windows 7 or later
- IOS 10.0 or later
- Android 4.4 or later
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Email or online ticketing
- Support response times
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General support responses can be expected within 2 hours from 9am - 6pm Monday to Friday.
Out of office hours and at weekends the response time is 12 hours. - User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- No
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- Web chat
- Web chat support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), 7 days a week
- Web chat support accessibility standard
- WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
- Web chat accessibility testing
- We rely on the testing conducted by the supplier of the web chat support platform.
- Onsite support
- Onsite support
- Support levels
- One to one and group training is encouraged during the initial onboarding phase after which Knowa gives all users free support 7 days a weeks to ensure they can get help whenever they need it.
- Support available to third parties
- Yes
Onboarding and offboarding
- Getting started
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Knowa provides one to one and group training throughout the onboarding period. The length varies for each client.
Online tutorials, videos and in product walk throughs are provided to all users and are easily accessible from within Knowa itself. - Service documentation
- Yes
- Documentation formats
- HTML
- End-of-contract data extraction
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Knowa provides an exported archive of all data, on demand for owners and administrators of organisations. Depending on the size of the export we can deliver this online or via an encrypted physical drive.
More information can be read here - https://knowa.co/your-data/ - End-of-contract process
- There are no additional costs for retrieving an archive of all data at the end of the contract.
Using the service
- Web browser interface
- Yes
- Supported browsers
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- Microsoft Edge
- Firefox
- Chrome
- Safari 9+
- Opera
- Application to install
- No
- Designed for use on mobile devices
- Yes
- Differences between the mobile and desktop service
- There are subtle interface differences to make the most of screen sizes but the overall user experience and functionality is consistent across mobile and desktop.
- Service interface
- No
- API
- No
- Customisation available
- No
Scaling
- Independence of resources
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Knowa operates continuous monitoring of its services and implements throttling or rate limiting on demand at a threshold that will affect other users.
Knowa's also utilised services provided by AWS that distribute operations across the production servers.
Analytics
- Service usage metrics
- No
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)
Asset protection
- Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
- Yes
- Data storage and processing locations
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- United Kingdom
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- EU-US Privacy Shield agreement locations
- User control over data storage and processing locations
- No
- Datacentre security standards
- Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
- Penetration testing frequency
- At least once a year
- Penetration testing approach
- ‘IT Health Check’ performed by a Tigerscheme qualified provider or a CREST-approved service provider
- Protecting data at rest
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- Physical access control, complying with another standard
- Encryption of all physical media
- Data sanitisation process
- Yes
- Data sanitisation type
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- Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
- Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
- Equipment disposal approach
- In-house destruction process
Data importing and exporting
- Data export approach
- Users can ask for an export of their data on demand.
- Data export formats
- CSV
- Data import formats
- CSV
Data-in-transit protection
- Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
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- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
- Legacy SSL and TLS (under version 1.2)
- Data protection within supplier network
- TLS (version 1.2 or above)
Availability and resilience
- Guaranteed availability
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Services will be available 99.9%, measured monthly, excluding holidays and weekends and scheduled maintenance.
Customer’s sole and exclusive remedy, and Company’s entire liability, in connection with Service availability will be that for each period of downtime lasting longer than one hour, Company will credit Customer 5% of Service fees for each period of 30 or more consecutive minutes of downtime; provided that no more than one such credit will accrue per day. Downtime will begin to accrue as soon as Customer (with notice to Company) recognises that downtime is taking place, and continues until the availability of Services is restored. - Approach to resilience
- Our hosting environment is fully-redundant with disaster recovery procedures. More information is available on request.
- Outage reporting
- Public dashboard: http://status.knowa.co/
Identity and authentication
- User authentication needed
- Yes
- User authentication
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- 2-factor authentication
- Username or password
- Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
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Workers are only authorised to access data that they reasonably must handle in order to fulfil their current job responsibilities.
Knowa uses multi-factor authentication for access to all administrative systems. Access to administrative servers requires access from specific IP addresses. Passwords shared using password managers are hidden. - Access restriction testing frequency
- At least every 6 months
- Management access authentication
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- 2-factor authentication
- Public key authentication (including by TLS client certificate)
- Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
- Username or password
Audit information for users
- Access to user activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long user audit data is stored for
- At least 12 months
- Access to supplier activity audit information
- Users contact the support team to get audit information
- How long supplier audit data is stored for
- At least 12 months
- How long system logs are stored for
- At least 12 months
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- No
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Other security certifications
- No
Security governance
- Named board-level person responsible for service security
- Yes
- Security governance certified
- No
- Security governance approach
- Security and processes within the organisation are monitored daily. Every employee performs their actions with security as a first step. Corners are never cut.
- Information security policies and processes
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Knowa has clear roles and responsibilities to determine who across the organisation is responsible for overseeing every part of our security policies and procedures. The responsibilities of each role are available on demand.
Knowa maintains this set of security policies, procedures and guidelines to provide every employee and contractor with the tools and knowledge they need to operate flawlessly in their security levels.
Knowa is also an active advocate of security in the sectors in which it operates in order to improve the overall attitude and understanding of information security and to maintain their own high benchmarks.
Operational security
- Configuration and change management standard
- Supplier-defined controls
- Configuration and change management approach
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Knowa uses robust procedures for change management . All changes, including those affecting permissions and access rights, and Client Data are documented, tested and approved by multiple people before deployment.
The ability to rollback to previous states is instant. - Vulnerability management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Vulnerability management approach
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Knowa’s Security Team continuously monitors threats and risks using a web application firewall (WAF).
All vulnerabilities are triaged and prioritised with high risk issues patched instantly. - Protective monitoring type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Protective monitoring approach
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Knowa monitors all access types and requests, including failed password attempts, failed multi-factor authentication attempts and multiple reset password attempts.
Knowa operates an intelligent automated threshold that blocks one or a combination of browser session, IP address and user based on the perceived threat levels. - Incident management type
- Supplier-defined controls
- Incident management approach
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Knowa has defined procedures for assessing and managing threats and events, from the automated threat detection, manual oversight and user reports.
Users are able to report incidents via email, phone or in-app support.
In the event of a data breach, Knowa will comply with Data Protection Laws in the notifying of users.
Secure development
- Approach to secure software development best practice
- Conforms to a recognised standard, but self-assessed
Public sector networks
- Connection to public sector networks
- No
Pricing
- Price
- £0 to £3,000 an instance a year
- Discount for educational organisations
- Yes
- Free trial available
- Yes
- Description of free trial
- 1 month free pilot, unlimited usage
Service documents
Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format,
email the supplier at hello@knowa.co.
Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.