Security

h2. Security Questions Answered on this Page

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h4. How do you ensure my data is secure?

Only if your application requests it. The process of crawling breaks documents into smaller pieces, called fields, and only those fields that are configured to be "stored" are actually stored in the index. It's not impossible for someone to recreate a document based on these fields, but it would be very difficult to do so. If security of documents is a concern, take care to only store those fields that are essential to be stored.

The LucidWorks Platform released a new option in v2.1 which allows the raw binary content of crawled documents to be stored in a field called "original_content" on each document, which would allow it to be used in results to users, perhaps as a preview of the document. If this option is selected, your documents are actually stored in the index, so take care not to select this for repositories with very sensitive documents that should not be stored elsewhere.

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