IMPORTANT: Questionmark recommendeds using the Delivery Odata API (click here for documentation) for new integrations, not the QMWISe API. Although we currently continue to issue maintenance updates to this API to support customers with current QMWISe-based integrations, we are no longer adding new methods/functionality to QMWISe.
Security
Applies to the following products:
Questionmark OnDemand
Questionmark Perception
Questionmark OnPremise
Applies to the following Perception versions:
Perception 5.7
Access to the QMWISe method(s) should be made as secure as possible. If the data passes between your application can be encrypted using SSL, it is recommended that you do so. If your Perception environment also contain high-stakes assessments, it is recommended that you limit the communication between QMWISe and other servers to only known trusted servers. This can be done by controlling access using IIS. Questionmark recommends that basic authentication is used over SOAP headers.
This chapter discusses the security options that are available for QMWISe and is divided in to: