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SecureForm: Give your customers access to their form submissions

Erik Kangas — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 01:03:16 +0000

Many times when a customer fills out a form on your website, they want a copy for their own records. Providing this copy of the submitted data often takes manual effort on your behalf to search your inbox, read the complete answer

Case Study: LuxSci SecureForm and Ink Signatures Eliminate Downloading, Printing, Signing, and Faxing of Contracts

Erik Kangas — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:14:32 +0000

For legal reasons, LuxSci’s HIPAA customers are required to physically sign a “Business Associate Agreement” and return it to us. While this is a simple and commonplace request, it creates a lot of busy work on the part of the>> read the complete answer

How can I remember all these ##@! passwords?

Erik Kangas — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 02:05:51 +0000

It is a fact of life that passwords are the keys to our online kingdoms … and that keeping these passwords safe is critical to preventing identity theft, ensuring corporate security, keeping private things private, and much more.

However, the>> read the complete answer

SMTP TLS: All About Secure Email Delivery over TLS

Erik Kangas — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 22:13:19 +0000

TLS stands for “Transport Layer Security” and is closely related to “SSL” (Secure Socket Layer). TLS is one of the standard ways that computers transmit information over an encrypted channel. In general, when one computer connects to another>> read the complete answer

SecureForm: Web or PDF Forms to Secure Email Service

Erik Kangas — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 02:12:24 +0000

LuxSci has released its new “SecureForm” service. Quickly make your web site or PDF forms secure and HIPAA compliant. Receive the form data, including uploaded files, via secure email or download the data securely from LuxSci’s web>> read the complete answer

Secure TLS Email for Bank of America Partners

Erik Kangas — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:35:34 +0000

Several months back, we discussed Enforcing Email Security with TLS when Communicating with Banks. This is a critical stipulation for many banks that have strict requirements that all email messages be encrypted in transit via TLS>> read the complete answer

Can You Make Your Email More Secure?

Erik Kangas — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:21:08 +0000

LuxSci offers many options for email security. Whether it is PGP, S/MIME, LuxSci’s SecureLine end-to-end email encryption, or forced secure logins over SSL, LuxSci can guide you in making the best choices for secure and safe>> read the complete answer

Recipe: Completely Secure Collection of Web Form Data using SSL and PGP or S/MIME

Erik Kangas — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:29:32 +0000

The situation: your organization needs to collect information from clients through from(s) on your web site, but that information is sensitive. So, you need to be absolutely sure that the information is transferred from the users of your web site>> read the complete answer

Is a FAX document HIPAA-Secure?

Erik Kangas — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:53:27 +0000

LuxSci offers solutions for secure and HIPAA compliant email and web services, so we are often asked about secure FAXing.

Many organizations, especially in the healthcare industry, have an urgent need to send important and sensitive>> read the complete answer

Security Simplified: The Base+Suffix Method for Memorable Strong Passwords

Erik Kangas — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:33:03 +0000

It’s the classic problem of having “too many keys”. You have accounts on many different web sites. Some are small and relatively insignificant, from a security point of view, like blogs or shopping sites. Some are large and sensitive, like>> read the complete answer