Certification and Compliance

Validation

Continuously validating Cableizer is a task we take serious. An extensive test suite ensures that simulation results are always accurate and reliable. Cableizer is continuously and automatically validating its simulation results against accredited values from publications and data sheets of cable suppliers. The following validation reports might be of special interest:

  • Comparison with Cymcap
  • Latest results of our validation test suite are published here
  • Cable pulling validation examples (Brugg, Southwire)

There is no possible certification for Cableizer because there exists no notified body or standardization company which can give an approval for cable rating software tools.

The Cigré workgroup B1.56 worked years on a guide regarding the verification of cable current ratings. According to the paper 'Overview of CIGRÉ WG B1.56 regarding the verification of cable current ratings' published 2019, a set of case studies will be provided and guidance points developed.
The Guide 880 'Power cable rating examples for calculation tool verification' was finally released mid-september 2022. We will add the Cigré case studies to our validation test suite and publish our compliance.

GDPR compliance and hosting

Cableizer supports the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union and all Cableizer services comply with its provisions. We made sure that all our third-party providers are compliant: DigitalOcean, Cloudflare

Cableizer is hosted in Frankfurt, Germany on the DigitalOcean data centre FRA1, which is certified according to SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001:2013, and PCI-DSS. For more details, please refer to the DigitalOcean certification reports page

Security and access

All traffic to and from our server is protected and secured by encryption by Cloudflare, which is certified according to SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001:2013, ISO 27701:2019, and PCI DSS 3.2.1. For more details, please refer to the Cloudflare compliance resources page:

Cableizer does currently not support a single sign-on (SSO) solution.
Log in to Cableizer is only possible with a valid password. Passwords (as all data) are sent encrypted using HTTPS to our server. Passwords are stored encrypted on our server using the PBKDF2 algorithm with a SHA256 hash. As a consequence, lost passwords cannot be restored, but a user can request a password reset link to be sent to his verified email-address.

Anti-Piracy

Cableizer is Software as a Service (SaaS), a cloud-based service where instead of downloading and installing software from your desktop PC or business network to run and update manually, you alternatively enter an application via an internet browser. No downloadable version exists and since access to calculation features depends on a paid subscription, we have no concerns about piracy of our software which might otherwise damage our pricing models. If you find a website you suspect may be selling or distributing a nonvalid Cableizer software or which provide illegal shared access to a Cableizer account please help us and others by reporting the seller/provider.

Users

The following map shows the number of unique paying customers of Cableizer per country since the start of our service. These customers have evaluated Cableizer in varying degree and trust us by signing a paid subscription.

The second map shows the number of trial requests of Cableizer per country since the start of our service. These customers have expressed interest and evaluated our software.