Read-only access: a simple answer for auditors
When an auditor asks how you protect your data from accidental or unauthorized changes, the best answer is short and easy to check. With EQQ-Triangle Standard Edition, queries can never change or delete your data, because the tool is always read-only.
The question auditors keep asking
Auditors want to know who can touch the data behind your reports. If a reporting tool can write back to the database, you have to explain every route a change could take. That means more documents, more exceptions and more time spent in meetings.
A read-only tool shrinks that conversation. If the tool cannot write, a user cannot change a record by using it, whether by mistake or on purpose. That is a control you can describe in one sentence.
What read-only means in EQQ-Triangle
EQQ® is the product mark, and EQQ-Triangle is the offering. EQQ-Triangle Standard Edition is always read-only. Queries can never change or delete your data.
Saved queries follow the same rule. They are stored as secure, read-only stored procedures. A query that someone builds once and reuses stays read-only each time it runs.
EQQ-Triangle is also a no-SQL-required tool built for non-technical business users. Finance and operations staff can get answers from the company database without writing code. For IT, that means more people can ask questions while the data stays protected.
Controls on who can use the tool
Read-only access limits what a query can do. You also need to control who can use the tool at all. EQQ-Triangle supports two controls for this:
- Role-based access control, so people see and use only what their role allows.
- TOTP-based multi-factor authentication, so a password alone is not enough to sign in.
It also runs with HTTPS/TLS. Together, these give you a clear story: the tool cannot change data, and only the right people can sign in and use it.
Installed on your own infrastructure
EQQ-Triangle is installed on your own IT infrastructure. It is not a hosted SaaS product. It runs as a Windows web app on your own network and connects to SQL Server, MySQL or PostgreSQL.
For an audit, this is a useful point. You can tell the auditor where the tool runs and who manages that server, because it sits inside your own environment.
What to say, and what not to say
Be careful about what you claim. Read-only access is a simple control to describe, but it does not make a company compliant, and it does not pass an audit for you. Your auditors decide what they accept. EQQ-Triangle gives IT and compliance teams one clear, easy-to-explain answer for the data protection part of the conversation.
A short version for your audit notes might read like this:
- The reporting tool is read-only, so queries cannot change or delete data.
- Saved queries are stored as read-only stored procedures.
- Access is controlled by roles and TOTP multi-factor authentication.
- The tool is installed on our own infrastructure.
Sharing results without risk to the source
Teams still need to get answers out of the database and into other hands. Standard Edition exports to Excel, CSV, JSON and PDF. Those exports are a way to share results. The source data stays as it was, because the tool only reads it.
Try it with your own data
Standard Edition costs USD 125 per month or USD 1,500 per year, with a 5-user minimum. You can see the details on the products page and the order page.
Before you buy, you can start the free 2-month trial of EQQ-Triangle. It needs no credit card. Connect it to a database, run a few queries and see how the read-only control looks to your own IT and compliance teams.
