Ten Minute Guide to Lotus Notes® 4.6

Encrypting Local Databases

Security is an issue in every company, and should your laptop become lost or stolen, the information stored in your Notes databases is no longer secure.

To help ensure that company information is accessible only to your company employees, you might want to encrypt the local copies of databases on your laptop. To encrypt local copies, you must have Manager access to the database. You are the Manager of your mail database, so you can encrypt that without a problem. If you are going to travel with company-sensitive information contained in other databases, check with your Notes administrator before you make replicas of additional databases. Ask your administrator if he advises encryption and ask him to show you how you ...