Company News
Marshall University Begins Security Audits on Skypunch
It has appeared here before that West Virginia University regularly audits the Skypunch online voting system against the cybersecurity framework published by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). With great pleasure, it can today be announced that Marshall University, home to the Institute for Cyber Security and a partner in the National Center of […]
Time Savers
Installing Lucee on Windows
The official documentation for installing the Lucee ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML) server on Windows can be found at Installing Lucee on Windows. That page links to the even more useful guide, Installing Lucee on a Clean Windows 2019 Datacenter with Installer. Both are helpful starting points, but even after following those instructions, you may still need to […]
Election Tips
Ranked Choice Voting, Part 2 of 2
Last month, part one of this two-part series provided an overview of ranked choice voting (RCV). This month we focus on how private-sector organizations can make the transition to RCV and lead the public sector into a better way of voting. Private/Public Similarities When deciding whether to adopt RCV for a private organization, the first […]
Election Tips
Ranked Choice Voting, Part 1 of 2
Ranked choice voting (RCV) does not enjoy widespread use. Yes, we see you, Australia, Scotland, and Ireland and applaud you for leading the world in adopting it over the past century. But let’s talk about the rest of the world, especially the United States, where RCV remains rare. In fact, recent efforts have even sought to ban its […]
Company News
AWS Consulting from Skypunch
Did you know Skypunch Technology is more than an election service provider? Indeed, the same expertise that goes into building the voting solution is also available for Amazon Web Services consulting. This is not a new announcement, and for a period of time there was a website devoted to it at skypunch.tech. That site is […]
Election Tips, Time Savers
Managing Account Turnover
The following scenario happens too frequently. An organization creates an account at Skypunch Technology; the point of contact for that account leaves; that person’s replacement comes on board and is assigned the responsibility of managing an election and creates a new account instead of using that organization’s existing account. The system does not permit two […]
Time Savers
Argon2 Password Hashing With ColdFusion
This article details how ColdFusion developers may easily store user passwords using the Argon2id password hashing algorithm as recommended by the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). At the time of this writing, neither Adobe ColdFusion nor Lucee support the ability to do this natively. There is an extension available for Lucee, but successfully installing […]
Election Tips
When, and When Not, to Use Position Descriptions
On a Board of Directors, it’s pretty common knowledge what the roles of President, Treasurer, Secretary and Director are. But occasionally something is voted on that requires a little explanation. This is almost always the case for things like referendums for changes to bylaws and the like. For these occasions, the Skypunch online voting system […]
Time Savers
Secure Attribute on Session Cookies with Lucee on IIS
Here is the scenario. You have an application written in the ColdFusion Markup Language and you have the Lucee application server installed and working properly to process that CFML code. All is good. But you know that as a security best practice, and security requirement if you need to comply with things such as the […]
Company News
Skypunch at Identity Week 2025
Identity Week is Europe’s largest annual conference for all things related to digital identity and authentication and Skypunch’s involvement in it is expected to bear fruit in the years ahead. In 2025, Identity Week was held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, featuring a reported 4000 plus attendees and hundreds of exhibitors and startups. The state of West […]