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File Vault Security

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Created on: 10/22/13 08:45 AM Views: 809 Replies: 3
Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 8:45 AM

During a Google search one of our members found a direct link to a sensitive PDF file in our file vault. The pages on our site that have links to that file are all password protected. How do I add password protection to files in the file vault to keep them secure?

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Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 11:28 AM - Response #1

When a member does a Google search while logged in to the website, the search can provide links to password protected information, but only to that member. Have your member do the search again, making sure not to be logged in, and see if the same link is provided.

Jim

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Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 12:46 PM - Response #2

When Google and other search engines use their web crawlers to find what they can, they'll find your site and display anything they find - including any links on the home page or home page menu - even though those links may be protected.

If you (or your classmembers) are logged in when you do the search, and click on one of those links Google displays, the site knows that you're logged in and you are allowed to see protected pages.

If you're logged out, you'll still see the links to protected pages in a Google search, but clicking on them will get you the same thing any other 'outsider' will see - the Restricted Access page.

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Tuesday, October 22, 2013 at 3:17 PM - Response #3

Anything that you wish to remain unlisted to search engines, should ONLY be displayed on pages that are password protected. This will keep search engines from indexing any of those links / documents. Your only option now would be to 1. update the name of the files of the pdf's that are indexed by google, 2. update your links and 3. be sure to password the pages that the links appear on. You would also need to delete the original pdf files from the file vault in order to kill the indexed links.


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