Access to this feature can change based on your Quickbase plan. Learn more about feature availability and plans in Quickbase capabilities.

Once you have secured the data within the enterprise, you must take steps to protect it from the core to the edge of the enterprise. You can deploy Quickbase as part of an end-to-end encryption solution across databases, applications, networks, and endpoint devices.

To protect data, you can:

Limit access by IP address

As a realm admin, you can create lists of trusted IP addresses or IP ranges from which your users can access apps in a realm.

To do so, go to the IP policies section of the Policies page in the Admin Console. Learn more

Best practice: IP allowlists should be part of your overall global security.

Classify sensitive data

Data classification is an important element of achieving data privacy. When performing this task, you should:

Determine data confidentiality levels
Identify and classify sensitive data
Determine where sensitive data is located
Determine data access models

As an app admin (you have full administration rights to control the app and its ownership), you should configure security options that are in line with the risk level determined by your overall enterprise data protection strategy.

To configure the level of data sensitivity in an app:

On the My Apps page, select the app to configure.
Select Settings, and then select App properties.
Scroll to the bottom of the page to the Advanced settings section.
Select the security options based on the level of data sensitivity you want to enforce for the app.

Realm admins have the ability to assign data classification to an entire app. This can help realm admins keep track of the kind of information stored within apps in the realm. Learn more in the Data classification help article.

Best Practice: For highly sensitive date, Quickbase recommends the following settings:

Prohibit app copy
Prohibit non-admin export of data
Require app tokens
Force IP controls

Manage apps

Depending on the size of your enterprise, you may deploy dozens or thousands of apps on Quickbase. You should consider and manage your apps as IT assets.

Best Practice: Quickbase recommends that you:

Maintain an inventory of all critical apps containing confidential information within your enterprise.
Ensure that these critical apps are designed for security and reviewed by IT regularly for access and permissions.