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Finally, there is the tried and true approach of break-and-enter. A Wise Owl Legal Appliance is small, easily transportable, and could easily be stolen by a malicious attacker if they thought it brought enough benefit.
Wise Owl Legal has taken steps in all the above areas to prevent data being stolen.
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Depending on how your Appliance is configured, you may have an SSL certificate issued by a 3rd party such as VeriSign or one issued by Wise Owl Legal. There is no difference in security between the two, however 3rd party certificates have an annual cost, while Wise Owl certificates require an additional step to configure web browsers (TODO: doco for trusting the Wise Owl root cert, similar to Installing Wise Owl SSL Certificate /wiki/spaces/IN/pages/228264241).
Whole Appliance Encryption
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Appliances in our data centres are also encrypted using the same technology, but to ease administration, may use a network based key rather than the physical USB key.
Passwords
Secret passwords are the main defence any website or appliance has to ensure only authorised users get access to it. Unfortunately, a bad password is only slightly better than no password (and provides a false sense of security).
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