This new tutorial video explains how SecureLine Escrow works for sending secure email messages to anyone on the Internet, no matter what kind of email service they have.  It discusses the security features of Escrow, how messages are sent securely, what the secure messages look like to the recipient, and how they are retrieved.

Watch Video: About SecureLine Escrow

Surprise!  HIPAA has changed, gotten bigger, and grown teeth.

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA, or The Obama Stimulus Bill), signed into law in February 2009, includes new, more comprehensive provisions for HIPAA. These provisions are in a section of the bill known as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH).

For organizations that are already required to abide by HIPAA (i.e. the “Covered Entities” of HIPAA), HITECH adds the following requirements:

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See also: Video: HIPAA-Compliant Email Services at LuxSci

Performing daily business transactions through electronic technologies is an accepted, reliable and necessary tool across the nation’s healthcare sectors. Therefore, electronic communications have become a standard in the healthcare industry as a way to conduct business activities that commonly include:

• Interacting with web-savvy patients;
• Real time authorizations for medical services;
• Transcribing, accessing and storing health records;
• Appointment scheduling; and
• Submitting claims to health plan payers for payment of the services provided.

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Section 1: Introduction to Email Security

You may already know that email is insecure; however, it may surprise you to learn just how insecure it really is. For example, did you know that messages which you thought were deleted years ago may be sitting on servers half-way around the world? Or that your messages can be read and modified in transit, even before they reach their destination? Or even that the username and password that you use to login to your email servers can be stolen and used by hackers?

This article is designed to teach you about how email really works, what the real security issues are, what solutions exist, and how you can avoid security risks.

Information Security and integrity are becoming more important as we use email for personal communication and business. While you are reading this article imagine how security problems can affect your business or personal life…. if they have not already.

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Email security issues and technologies are extremely complicated; however, here we intend to make the salient issues and solutions clearly understandable to all readers.

You may already know that email is not a perfectly secure communication medium; however, it might surprise you to learn just how inherently insecure email can be. Messages thought deleted can still exist in backup folders on remote servers years after being sent. Hackers can read and modify messages in transit, use your usernames and passwords to login to your online services, and steal your identity and critical information!

As the amount of crucial business conducted via email increases, so does the amount of Spam, viruses, hacking, fraud, and other malicious activity. Unless precautions are taken, email can leave you and your business open to escalating security and privacy risks. What are these risks?

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Do you feel secure? If so, you must be a good corporate citizen. You are on time every day, contribute effectively and courteously in meetings, and your appearance is impeccable. You could be a contender as Trump’s next Apprentice. Of course, no one knows that you’re more like Andrew Dice Clay when you email your co-workers and friends. Or do they???

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Our sales staff has been asked this question countless times.  It is a natural assumption that because SSL and TLS encryption of email (and web sites) requires use of an "SSL certificate", that one must buy an SSL certificate in order to use such a service.  Fortunately, the answer is always

You do not need to buy your own SSL certificate to use secure email.

We’ll explain why.

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Every organization is different in the way that it communicates internally and with its vendors and customers and in the kinds of information that it sends over the Internet.  LuxSci has developed a simple free questionaire that will help us to assess your security and privacy needs and to provide recommendations to you as to the best ways to meet them.

See our: Email Security Analysis Survey

Security researches will be outlining attacks that can break the WPA wirless security protection of wireless networks this week at the PacSec conference in Tokyo.  Erik Tews and Martin Beck will discuss how networks protected by TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol — originally called WEP2) are vulnerable to attackers being able to inject small amounts of traffic into the encrypted data stream.  This can allow attackers to:

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SSL versus TLS

TLS (Transport Layer Security) and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) are protocols that provide data encryption and authentication between applications in scenarios where that data is being sent across an insecure network, such as checking your email (How does the Secure Socket Layer work?). The terms SSL and TLS are often used interchangeably or in conjunction with each other (TLS/SSL), but one is in fact the predecessor of the other — SSL 3.0 served as the basis for TLS 1.0 which, as a result, is sometimes referred to as SSL 3.1. With this said though, is there actually a difference between the two?

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