The Kofax Search and Matching Server is a data driven application that typically is used to work with sensitive data like customer or supplier databases. In addition, the internal configuration files may contain connection information to external databases including user name and password combinations. All information is sent over the network during administration and stored on disk of the computer where the Kofax Search and Matching Server and the Load Balancer is installed. The following topics explain how the sensitive data is protected during communication and storage.