[dvosmas]

Hi

Regarding donor confidentiality, to protect the donor's bio and gift history, is there any industry practice to encrypt the donor's name, gift details/history and bio details such as addresses, telephone numbers and email addresses?

Do you also encrypt the BAK file created from RE database backup feature with Winzip's AES encryption, rather than just using RE's native compression feature?

Does anyone know if there is a reference document on industry best practices for protecting donor confidentiality, especially on a technical level regarding database and the backups from it?

Thank you.



Gordon

[mwittman]

dvosmas,

I've scripted the following to do scheduled encrypted backups in conjunction with 7-zip and Wget.

Any set of files will do, so RE database dump files would be fine too.

I put it up on Shared Files here at the blackbus site: ZipArc.cmd