Data Security Implementation

Data Security

Data security is the practice of protecting digital information from unauthorized access, corruption, or theft.

  • Can you trust the app not to perform fraudulent activity on your machine?
  • How safe is your data that is stored within an app?
  • How secure is the process of transferring your data into an app?

Can You Trust This App Not to Perform Fraudulent Activity on Your Machine?

A web app, such as this one, can not access files on your computer without your specific permission. That security feature is built into the browser.

The apps you download on to your computer are able to access the files on your computer and send out your sensitive files. It basically comes down to how much do you trust your apps to not do this.

App stores such as Apple App Store and the Google Play Store actively monitor and check their apps to ensure that they will not steal your data.

Be very careful of apps download from the internet. Hackers will try to get you to install malicious apps that can steal data, take over your accounts, and more.

From a security standpoint, downloading an Excel spreadsheet with macros (file extension .xslm) from the internet is a terrible idea. The same technology that allows you to write a simple excel macro to send an email when a specific number changes in a spreadsheet, is the same technology that allows a hacker to help themselves to your data from your computer. read more here.

How Safe is Your Data That is Stored within This App?

This web app uses one of the largest cloud services suppliers to store your data, as it is the most secure data storage available.

Cloud Security Activities

Cloud providers invest heavily in cybersecurity to protect their customers and infrastructure. As an example, it's estimated that Amazon spends billions of dollars on cybersecurity measures annually.

This investment includes a range of initiatives, such as advanced threat detection systems, encryption technologies, security training programs for employees, and continuous monitoring of its systems for potential vulnerabilities. With the increase in cyber threats, Amazon remains committed to ensuring the highest level of security for its operations and the customers who rely on its services.

This web app does not store any files on your computer, not even temporarily.

Computers get lost/stolen/thrown away and the hard drives within them are rarely encrypted so the data residing on them can be accessed easily. It's not difficult to take a hard drive out of a computer and access the files residing on it.

Just type "hard drive reader" into the amazon search bar and you will see a variety of devices, like the one pictured here, that will enable you to read the contents of a hard drive.

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How Secure Is the Process of Transferring Your Data into This App

When your data is sent from your computer to our app in the cloud, the data is encrypted in transit.

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This means that even if your data is intercepted while it's being sent from your desktop to our app, it’s scrambled into an unreadable format.

This can be validated by checking your browser connection is using the https protocol. This protocol secures communications by using what's known as an asymmetric public key infrastructure.

If you have an interest in IT security there is a good article here called, Healthcare and Cybersecurity: Statistics, Facts, and Trends