Devices, methods and systems for secure data transfers

A method for securely transferring digital data from a first repository to a second repository comprising:

• receiving a second repository into a repository library;
• marking the second repository with a human recognizable identifier;
• determining an internal identifier associated with the second repository;
• registering the second repository in a database, wherein the database identifies the second repository using the human recognizable identifier and the internal identifier;
• communicating the database to a workflow computing system;
• selecting, using the workflow computing system, the second repository as a destination for a transfer of a set of digital data from a first repository;
• establishing a first communications link between a data port device and the workflow computing system, wherein the data port device includes at least one communications port configurable for establishing a communications link between the first repository and the second repository;
• receiving at the data port device a work order from the workflow computing system, wherein the work order specifies the second repository based on the human recognizable identifier and the internal identifier associated therewith in the database, and the work order identifies the set of digital data to be transferred from the first repository to the second repository;
• establishing a second communications link between the data port device and a second device;
• determining whether the second device is the second repository identified in the work order;
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• when the result of the determining results in an identification of the second device as the second repository, further performing the operations of:
• establishing a third communications link between the data port device and the first repository;
• opening the at least one communications port in the data port device to establish a communications path between the first repository and the second repository, wherein the communications path includes the second communications link and the third communications link;
• transferring the set of digital data from the first repository to the second repository via the communications path;
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• determining whether the set of digital data transferred from the first repository to the second repository satisfies a data integrity requirement.