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Posts Tagged ‘secureline’
Friday, June 19th, 2009
 To address the request of many clients, LuxSci has simplified the process of picking up SecureLine Escrow encrypted email messages. This change makes message pickup faster and easier and improves the usability of the SecureLine service overall.
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Tags: escrow, message, password, secureline, security
Posted in New Feature Announcements
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
 LuxSci’s High Volume Outbound Email Sending Service, released earlier this year, has been a notable success. Our service permits the sending of legitimate bulk email messages and also provides reliable “smarthost” services. However, the offering is restricted to SMTP services and does not include the many outbound email processing tools present in LuxSci’s Premium Email service. I.e. see LuxSci Outbound Email: 5 Sending Options Compared!
Since High Volume Mail was offered, we have had many requests to send HIPAA-compliant bulk outbound email, i.e. newsletters and notices that contain protected health information (PHI) . In such cases, SecureLine should be used to encrypt the outbound email in a way that can be opened by any recipient, but which is still secure. Unfortunately, integration with SecureLine is not a feature of our Basic High Volume service.
LuxSci has responded by releasing Premium High Volume Outbound Email Service. This is essentially Premium Email hosting with:
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Tags: bulk mailing, high volume, hipaa, outbound email, phi, secureline, smtp
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Saturday, April 25th, 2009
 LuxSci has offered “Private Labeling” for many years. This feature allows customers to customize the look and feel of the WebMail and SecureLine interfaces to match the branding of their web site or organization’s colors.
Private Labeling tools now include:
- 11 new color schemes that can be selected to quickly configure WebMail to match your organization’s general color scheme.
- A new Private Labeled Theme Creation Wizard that allows you to select a color scheme plus upload your logo. The Wizard will then create a professional looking standard theme. Our wizard makes it easy and fast to create a theme that matches your organization’s branding — no HTML or programming skill is needed.
- A “Look and Feel Wizard” that allows anyone with an existing Private Labeled theme to similarly select a color scheme and upload a logo to re-design their theme using one of the new styles.
- Better organized theme management to further simplify theme access and configuration.
Tags: branding, look and feel, private labeling, secureline, webmail, wizard
Posted in New Feature Announcements
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Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Read receipt requests are generally an extremely unreliable way to find out if your recipient has read an email messages that you have sent to him/her.
Why? Because
- Some email programs do not support read receipts, and thus messages viewed with these would never send you a notice that the message was read.
- Programs that do support read receipts allow the user to respond to them “always”, “never”, or “ask each time” … with “asking each time” being the default. As a result, users often will decline your request for a receipt that you have read the message.
However, when messages are sent via LuxSci’s SecureLine Escrow encryption service, read receipts are guaranteed to work.
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Tags: delivery notice, encrypted, escrow, notice, read receipt, retract, retracting, secureline
Posted in New Feature Announcements
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Thursday, April 9th, 2009
LuxSci has improved the look and feel of the SecureLine Escrow and SecureSend portals. In the process, the maximum message size that can be sent from these portals has been raised from 20 Megabytes to 50 Megabytes (raw size) and the maximum number of attachments on one of these secure messages has been raised from 3 to 20 files.
The SecureSend portal allows anyone with an email address to send secure email messages to any LuxSci SecureLine user for free. The SecureLine Escrow portal is where recipients who do not have PGP or S/MIME capability go to pick up secure email messages sent to them from LuxSci SecureLine users.
Tags: attachments, escrow, secureline, sending, size
Posted in New Feature Announcements
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
 We recently discussed email security for accountants and mentioned that the use of password-protected files is not usually a very good solution for meeting data privacy needs. After writing this and getting some feed back, we thought that the issue of password-protected files really deserves some further discussion. Many people are under the assumption that if they use the “password protection” features of whatever software they are using, that their data is safe and secure. However, this is not necessarily the case. Why?
Using password-protected files to secure data is fast and easy and built into many applications. Why not use it? Certainly, password protecting files is much better than not doing so. However, there are several things that determine how secure these “protected” files really are.
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Tags: aes, brute force, dictionary, digital signature, encrypted, excel, insecure, microsoft word, office 2007, one note, password, password protected, password recovery, password-protected files, Password-Protected PDF, password-to-modify, pdf, pgp, powerpoint, s/mime, secureline, ssl, strong encryption, winzip, zip
Posted in LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy, TechNotes
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Friday, February 13th, 2009
 Everyone always harps on the necessity of privacy when discussing health care, government, and banking communications. It is surprising how little attention is paid to email security with regards to accounting and tax preparation. There is a real danger of identity theft, unintended information disclosure, as well as invasion of privacy when using tax preparation services or organizations that do not use secure email. Why is this?
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Tags: accountant, accounting, documents, email, encrypted, identity theft, password recovery, password-protected file, private labeled, quickbooks, secure email, secureline, security, social security number, tax, tax prep, tax returns
Posted in Business Solutions, LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy
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Monday, February 9th, 2009
 Guaranteeing that information sent via email remains confidential can be a tricky business. Whether you’re in health care governed by HIPAA, education, or commerce, your customers and correspondents must be able to quickly and easily send your messages and attachments securely — no matter what email service they may have.
Solution?
With the LuxSci’s SecureLine SecureSend Portal, anyone with an email address can easily send any LuxSci SecureLine user secure emails for free.
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Tags: attachments, email archival, free, hipaa, private labeled, secure attachments, secure email, secure send, secureline, securesend
Posted in Business Solutions
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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
 Doctors and medical professionals are feeling a growing pressure to get their business online (i.e. even use of electronic prescriptions is being pushed). This includes making available protected health information to patients via a web site and collecting similar private information from patients or would-be patients. If doctors can show that they are using digital systems with their health care practices in a meaningful way by 2011, they may be eligible for some serious money (part of the proposed stimulus package — the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH)).
However, where the health information of an identifiable individual is involved, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is the official compliance document. So, what do these requirements mean and how can HIPAA be followed in the context of a website?
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Tags: backup, disposal, electronic prescription, encrypted, escrow, form, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, hipaa, hipaa-secure, patient, pgp, privacy agreement, protected health information, s/mime, secure ftp, secureline, ssl, web form, web site
Posted in Business Solutions, LuxSci Library: HIPAA
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Thursday, January 15th, 2009
.gif) Situation:
You collect private information on your website. Whether it’s health information that needs to be HIPAA-compliant, credit card numbers, or other confidential data, you need an easy and transparent way to protect the privacy of your visitors, from start to finish.
Solution:
LuxSci provides a secure web form for your website. Information is encrypted and emailed to you directly, so that you can access everything in your own email, but know that the data was secure from input to delivery.
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Tags: decrypted, encrypted, end-to-end, hipaa, secure, secure email, secure web form, secure web site, secureline, ssl, web form
Posted in Business Solutions
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