Hello Simon,

I'm working for a police department in a bigger federal state of Germany 
(40000+ employees). I was (as a policeofficer, not programmer or so) involved  
to launch shortly QGIS as the free alternative desktop-GIS to ESRI for everyone 
who has a need in our organisation.
From my point your main problem is not QGIS vs. ArcGIS or open source against 
closed source.
As others said before the question of security is where and in which format you 
store your confidential data and who has how access to it.
I'm sure you have securty professionals in your organisation. Discuss your 
usecase and the options: file format and fileaccess or database etc..
Then I would think about the software on the clients (which could be QGIS for 
many reasons 🙂 ).

That would be my 2 cent.

Best regards,

Michael
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Von: QGIS-User <[email protected]> im Auftrag von Simon via 
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Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. Mai 2023 18:09
An: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Betreff: [Qgis-user] QGIS for safe organization use.

Hello,

I work at the Department of National Defense for the Canadian government and 
had some questions regarding QGIS.

Firstly, I'm working on a project to determine the seismic risk and 
vulnerability of all the department's buildings different Canadian Provinces. 
An important part of the project will be to create a geodatabase containing 
crucial information about each building. After, I plan to create a layer that 
will show the location of these buildings on a map.

Now, a large portion of the information regarding the buildings and their 
locations is confidential, and so I'm wondering if the geodatabase and layer 
that I plan to create will be safe and protected, or if other users will have 
access to them since QGIS is free and open source?

At first, I was planning to work with ArcGIS Pro but I'm currently waiting for 
a license. When or if it comes through, I'll stick with ArcGIS but for now QGIS 
seems to be the best alternative.

If QGIS is not safe, are there other safe and similar softwares you can 
recommend?

Thanks,

Simon


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