The safest place to put them is nowhere. Why would you put them in ebase at all unless you have one of the add-ins that allow directly charging credit cards? We run a web site that takes credit card purchases. It goes through a program on one of our machines called ICVerify which keeps track of credit cards and I am not happy about it but it is sort of necessary to keep them for at least a few days in case the customer has problems. Any of the paperwork, e.g. a phone in order, with a credit card number on it goes through the shredder immediately after it is charged. Just being anywhere on one of your disks is a security exposure if you are connected to the internet and someone hacks their way in.
The custom screen is just a layout on the names file so you would have to change the password for it, which would foul up the rest of ebase. Even a password on a FileMaker file does not really protect it as the file is not encrypted on disk, e.g. you can pick it up with notepad and sort of read most of the contents. About the closest you can come to one level of protection is to create a new file with a different password than the ebase passwords. That file would have two fields record number and credit card number and a relationship back to the names file so it can have a layout that displays some of the name and address info for instance. Do not put in a relationship from any of the ebase files to this file as ebase will attempt to open it and request the password. Only the person who needs to know the credit card numbers would open this special file. > -----Original Message----- > From: Sue Gilbert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 15, 2001 2:12 PM > To: TechRocks Support > Subject: [support] credit card security > > > Our credit card field on th custom page. Is there a way to make this page > only viewable by people with some sort of security code or special > password? Is there a more secure place to put credit card information? > > Thanks. > > Sue Gilbert > > Membership Coordinator > Save The Bay > 1600 Broadway, Suite 300 > Oakland, CA 94609 > p: 510/452-9261 > f: 510/452-9266 > www.savesfbay.org > > ------------------ > Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to > http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and > enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase > support list:: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ------------------ Reminder to each recipient: To change your list account preferences, go to http://email.sparklist.com/scripts/lyris.pl?enter=support and enter the email address you used to subscribe to the ebase support list:: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- ebase - Relationship Management for Nonprofits, http://www.ebase.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------
