To ensure protection of your data, Double-Take Software products offer multi-level security using native operating system security features. Privileges are granted through membership in user groups defined on each machine. To gain access to a source or target, the user must provide a valid operating system user name and password and the specified user name must be a member of one of the Double-Take Availability security groups. Once a valid user name and password have been provided and the source or target has verified membership in one of the security groups, the user is granted appropriate access to the source or target and the corresponding features are enabled in the client. Access is granted on one of the following three levels.
Although passwords are encrypted when they are stored, Double-Take Software security design does assume that any machine running the client application is protected from unauthorized access. If you are running the client and step away from your machine, you must protect your machine from unauthorized access.