Paranormal Research Association of Ireland

Paranormal CMS or PCMS for short is a Client and Case manager for paranormal investigators which has been developed by the Paranormal Research Association of Ireland to allow central management of cases and client records in a multi user environment.

PCMS is custom built from the ground up for and by paranormal investigators

Key Features Client Information Manager Case Tracker Document and Image Manager Investigation Information and Data Collection Fully Custom Charts and Reporting Full Featured Access and Permissions System Data export in a variety of formats eg: Excel Team Directory

PCMS is written in PHP for installation on a web server and uses a MySQL Database.

Versions

PCMS is available with two licenses Non Profit and Commercial

Non Profit Licenses are granted free of charge to verified non profit groups who do not charge for any service.

Commercial Licenses are available for a fee to groups who do charge for services but wish to make use of PCMS

Both versions are exactly the same in terms of features

A  Demo Version is available to allow evaluation of the program. the demo is fully featured but will store only a limited number of records, if you like the program and wish to remove the limits then a new licence file is all that is required to enable unlimited records.

PCMS was written by Ryan O’Neill, Technical Manager in the Paranormal Research Association of Ireland.

Please contact for a licence file to remove the demonstration version limitations

You can download the Program from here

Having trouble installing PCMS? view our video guide here

Tips for keeping your data secure

While PCMS has a comprehensive access control system in place to allow you to fully define who has access to what information there are additional security precautions you can and should take to help keep your data secure.

• You can’t attack what you can’t find. Rather than installing PCMS at http://www.yourdomain.org/pcms change the location to something like http://www.yourdomain.org/clientfiles123 this is easy as changing the the folder name containing PCMS on your web server. Only you and your team    need to know the URL to access the program.
• Layer your security. Protect the pcms directory with a .htaccess password. a user name and password is required to even access the login page.
• Use SSL, Secure Sockets Layer. Don’t just use it enforce it with a server directive. This means that your session with PCMS is encrypted indicated with a closed padlock on your browser. this prevents man in the middle attacks or packet sniffing of your session or password.
• Use robots.txt to prevent search engines indexing your PCMS directory, many hacking targets are found on the likes of Google, keep the search engines out.

New hacks and exploits surface all the time, the more road blocks in the way the safer you are.