Hi, Simon -
The geodatabase and layer data files will be as protected as you and
your department's IT shop make them. So make sure to keep them off AWS,
Dropbox, Azure, or any other external service. If anything, you're
better off with QGIS in that regard - especially if you run it built
from source - because if e.g. ArcGIS were beaming everything you were
doing to some unknown offsite entity, you'd only know it by capturing
the network traffic. On the other hand, even if /you/ don't go through
QGIS' source yourself looking for INFOSEC shenanigans, it being open
source ensures that anyone, anywhere, /can/. It's not airtight in
INFOSEC terms because yes, some miscreant could write a backdoor into QGIS,
I made a decision a long time ago to stick with QGIS and other Open
Source software for GIS purposes because my access to ESRI products
depends on an employer's or client's paying for it; if I no longer have
that employer or client, I'll lose that access and I can't afford ArcGIS
licenses on my own, so why don't I keep my expertise going with QGIS
since no one can take it from me?
- Jeff
On 5/23/23 12:09 PM, Simon via QGIS-User wrote:
Hello,
I work at the Department of National Defense for the Canadian
government and had some questions regarding QGIS.
Firstly, I'm working on a project to determine the seismic risk and
vulnerability of all the department's buildings different Canadian
Provinces. An important part of the project will be to create a
geodatabase containing crucial information about each building. After,
I plan to create a layer that will show the location of these
buildings on a map.
Now, a large portion of the information regarding the buildings and
their locations is confidential, and so I'm wondering if the
geodatabase and layer that I plan to create will be safe and
protected, or if other users will have access to them since QGIS is
free and open source?
At first, I was planning to work with ArcGIS Pro but I'm currently
waiting for a license. When or if it comes through, I'll stick with
ArcGIS but for now QGIS seems to be the best alternative.
If QGIS is not safe, are there other safe and similar softwares you
can recommend?
Thanks,
Simon
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