Safe place to store digital payslips?

B0bbyEwing

I like to have them easy accessible & together in yearly order. 
They're sent to us in a password protected .pdf to our email.

Currently I then remove the password & store in Google Drive (long random password & 2FA to my account). I'm wondering about the security side of this.

Beyond various numbers which I don't imagine will be much to anyone, they obviously have

full name
my employers name
NINO
My address
Employee number
Tax Code

Other than that it's just various totals.

I'd rather not just leave them in their emails as the only way of accessing. Currently having to go through a large number of them & it's incredibly faffy entering the password for each, scrolling down, selecting more, password, repeat repeat repeat.

So is there a 'safe' (as can be) way of storing all these together (with password removed as I currently do)?

IvanOpinion

I personally would not trust storing that level of personal information unencrypted on googledrive. Can you not store the encrypted PDF on googledrive?

There are some cloud storage providers that offer no knowledge client side encrypted storage.
Sync.com gives 5Gb of free diskspace (easily upgradeable to 10Gb) which should be more than enough for your payslips and other personal documents.

You could also try VeraCrypt to create a small encrypted partition and store them in there (looks like any other drive to windows) and then copy the entire partition to your googledrive. You would not be able to see them on your googledrive though since it would look like a single file.

Frozen_up_north

Another vote for VeraCrypt. Google Drive for personal users has access to your files by Google employees, I store photos and personal files on Proton Drive, which is an order of magnitude more secure from employees than Google. Proton Drive is free up to 5 GB and around £3.29 per month for 200 GB. https://proton.me/drive

Eyeful

Suggest you encrypt information before you up load such info.
Have a look at using these. You can see how to use these on YouTube videos.
1. Cryptomator: https://cryptomator.org/
2. 7zip will encrypt files & folders : https://7-zip.org/download.html
3. As others have said there is  VeraCrypt

Consider using Proton Drive

B0bbyEwing

Thanks. I actually have Veracrypt installed on my PC.

In this instance, since the .pdf's are password protected, would you even bother encrypting? 

It doesn't mention anything in Outlook about encryption but as I open a browser & go to my gmail account it tells me the payslip .pdf's are encrypted.

RobfromCornwall

I have no concerns storing these locally on my device and backed up/synced using iCloud.  Maybe I should be. 

Oh, and I'm fond of combining pdfs into one big one so I have one document rather than one per month.

Frozen_up_north

B0bbyEwing said:

In this instance, since the .pdf's are password protected, would you even bother encrypting? 

Personally I wouldn’t trust PDF encryption, or anything in MS Office. If you check on line, there are password crackers for Office and maybe PDF files too. Veracrypt is a better bet for securing anything of a sensitive nature.

PRAISETHESUN

Another vote for veracrypt and to also encrypt anything before you upload it, instead of relying on the encryption of the cloud service provider.

B0bbyEwing

Just thinking - some times I like/need to view files where they're held, be it Dropbox or Google Drive or whatever, on my phone.

Is there a way to still do that if they're encrypted?

IvanOpinion

B0bbyEwing said:

Just thinking - some times I like/need to view files where they're held, be it Dropbox or Google Drive or whatever, on my phone.

Is there a way to still do that if they're encrypted?

If you use a zero knowledge cloud provider then yes.
Some that come to mind are Sync.com, IceDrive, tresorit and there are many others.

Frozen_up_north

B0bbyEwing said:

Just thinking - some times I like/need to view files where they're held, be it Dropbox or Google Drive or whatever, on my phone.

Is there a way to still do that if they're encrypted?

Proton Drive is end to encrypted and Proton do not have the keys. There is an iPhone app. Maybe an Android one too. Up to 5GB is free