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How to protect your personal sensitive information
You have to know two main terms; Secure Sockets Layer (SSL Certificates) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTPS). SSL Certificates are small data files that digitally bind a cryptographic key to an organization's details. When installed on a web server, it activates the padlock and the https protocol and allows secure connections from a web server to a browser.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol - Secure (HTTPS)
HTTPS secures websites when users are providing sensitive information like credit card numbers or other personal information. The protocol offers multiple layers of data protection including data integrity, encryption, and authentication.
Sending documents over email may seem private, but even if you're using an email account that uploads attachments over a more secure HTTPS connection, you have no control over your recipient's server, and they may download your attachment from an unencrypted HTTP connection. Now say they did that from a public Wi-Fi network. Things just got very un-secure.
If you're set on transferring the files digitally, you should encrypt them (which you can do using one of archiving tools), you could create a password-protected archive (with super-strong AES-256 encryption). You would still need to give your tax preparer the password to your encrypted archive, which you wouldn't want to do over email for the same reason you wouldn't want to send the files as attachments.
Mohamed Khairy
Tax, Financial and Business Consultant
MOHAMED KHAIRY is the key founder of Business Culture Centre of Canada in Nova Scotia since 2006 to support small business with different active departments; Training, Research and development and turnkey cloud solutions, the training department is approved by Employment and Social Development Canada.
KHAIRY has over 40 years of experience in national and international business, over 30 network turnkey solution applications; designing, developing, implementing and deploying local and cloud base platforms, the administration is based on accounting concepts and rules with financial and non-financial data analysis, specialize in building the necessary database to improve business analysis, optimization and reengineering.
Countries of business are: Canada, USA, Germany, United Kingdom, Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain, United Arab Emirates, Taiwan and China. Companies are involved: Digital Equipment Corporation, Giza Systems Engineering of Egypt, Mountains International, Kuwaiti Danish Computer Company, ALBABTAIN Group of Bahrain, ALHASAWI Industrial Group of Kuwait - ACE Hardware, Sears, and H & R Block and Loblaw's Canada.
KHAIRY has Bachelor degree in Engineering, Master Degree in Business Accounting and Executive Business Administration, Diploma in Operation Research, system analysis and design, Programming techniques, data structure and data base. Papers in programming techniques and data security - Exeter and Keele University - UK. Member of Engineering Society, EFILE association of Canada, Canadian Payroll Association CPA and Canadian Internet Registration Authority CIRA.