The front office server, which initially receives the data is protected with high levels of security: data encryption and firewalls. The banks access the server through separate tunnels protected against interference and hacking.

The data is immediately transferred to a highly secured encrypted database server, hosted within IPT in a zone both physically and electronically separated from the rest of the plant. Surveillance cameras monitor the area around the clock, and entry is restricted to limited personnel who hold coded and biometric access keys.

Current printing jobs are decrypted and transferred to the operation server, which has highly restricted and monitored access.

To protect the information from third-party access, the front office and operation servers remain data free. Furthermore, all computers connected with the cheques' servers are diskless and do not contain any removable data-carrying devices, preventing replication of data.

IPT's personnel have restricted, partial access to the data on the servers and to the cheques themselves. Each member is involved in only one segment of the process, and human intervention is limited by automation.