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Data Protection

Sharp Cat has current data protection registration and follows the data protection code both in the law and spirit of the act. All of the data that we handle is stored as it should be on secure servers in an air conditioned, key-pad registration environment with daily back up.

Sending Data Via Email - Security

Unless you encrypt and password protect your data it can be read by tools available for free over the Internet. This is a fact. We have run tests and found that this type of software can read bytes of information. At a higher level, with recording packet tools it is possible to record Internet traffic onto hard disk and play this back thus extracting key information such as your valuable data.

The nature of how emails are sent across the Internet (packets) makes them vulnerable to unwanted eyes seeing not just the email, but also what has been attached. All of this data can be converted from packets of information to the original files.

We strongly recommend protecting your data when sending it to us and we are more than happy to discuss this with you in detail. At the very least if you use Excel you should password protect your data with a password of not less than 15 characters long made up of alphanumeric characters. Keep in mind that if your data is extremely valuable then there are tools available which are designed to discover passwords from any file and so you should consider the other more secure options available to you

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