secure

1. Strong enough or sufficiently protected to be safe, or providing freedom from apprehension of danger or risk.

2. Connection or system through which information can be exchanged without unauthorized third party interception or corruption of the signals.

The objects of a financier are, then, to secure an ample revenue; to impose it with judgment and equality; to employ it economically; and, when necessity obliges him to make use of credit, to secure its foundations in that instance, and for ever, by the clearness and candor of his proceedings, the exactness of his calculations, and the solidity of his funds.