Tag: security

Understanding Email Services: A crash course in email jargon

July 23, 2013

You thought email was a simple concept, but you are at once confronted with a plethora of acronyms and jargon like POP, IMAP, WebMail, Aliases, Forwards, SMTP, IMAP, POP, Quota, SPAM, TLS, SSL, Archival, and more! This article describes the ins and outs of email, explains these terms, and helps you figure out what services […]

Ensuring all data is encrypted at rest with LuxSci

May 10, 2013

Email and other data are either being “transmitted” or “processed” or are “at rest.” I.e., it is moving from one computer to another, stored/at rest on a computer, or preparing to be transmitted or stored. While most types of compliance regulation, such as HIPAA, specifically require that data be transmitted securely, not all regulations require […]

Enforcing Email Security with TLS when Communicating with Banks

November 3, 2008

LuxSci has had many requests from clients who have to communicate with various bank and other security-conscious organizations that LuxSci “enforce the encryption of email when sent to those organizations email servers via TLS”. This is such a common request, that I wanted to explain what it means, why it is good, how LuxSci does this by default, and the extra step LuxSci can take to lock down things even more for you.