Knowledge Base/Digital Tiger/Security, Confidentiality and Integrity
How Secure is Digital Tiger?
Andrew Solomon
posted this on April 12, 2011 09:21 am
Your files are actually safer while stored in Digital Tiger than on your computer in some cases. We use the same secure methods as banks and the military to send and store your data.
Digital Tiger takes the security of your files and of our software very seriously. We use the best tools and engineering practices available to build our software, and we have smart people making sure that Digital Tiger remains secure. Your files are backed-up, stored securely, and password-protected.
Nobody can see your private files in Digital Tiger unless you deliberately invite them or put them in your Public folder. Everything in your Public folder is, by definition, accessible to anyone. Otherwise, the only way to access the files in your Digital Tiger online is with your username and password.
Digital Tiger uses modern encryption methods to both transfer and store your data.
- Shared folders are viewable only by people you invite
- All transmission of file data occurs over an encrypted channel (SSL).
- All files stored on Digital Tiger servers are encrypted (AES-256) and are inaccessible without your account password
- Digital Tiger website and client software have been hardened against attacks from hackers
- Online access to your files requires your username and password
- Public files are only viewable by people who have a link to the file(s). Public folders are not browsable or searchable
- Digital Tiger employees aren't able to access user files, and when troubleshooting an account they only have access to file metadata (filenames, file sizes, etc., not the file contents)
Digital Tiger uses Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) for storage, which has a robust security policy of its own. You can find more information on Amazon's data security from the S3 site or, read more about how Digital Tiger and Amazon securely stores data.