If you’ve been following tech news in the last year or so, you may have heard Huawei’s name pop up again and again, almost always in a negative way. The Chinese tech giant is involved in infrastructure and the production of consumer devices, and over the past few years it has made a massive push […]

The season is upon us. It’s definitely not Christmas, and there are very few people who would claim that the lead-up to April’s cutoff date is their favorite time of the year. If you thought that paying your dues to the IRS was already enough to worry about, get ready for some bad news: It’s […]

HIPAA, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, spells out rules and regulations for the privacy and protection of individually identifiable health information. The HIPAA Privacy Rule and the HIPAA Security Rule establish standards related to the implementation of physical, administrative, and technical safeguards to ensure that PHI or Protected Health Information is […]

Does secure texting exist, or is it as elusive as a clear photo of bigfoot? To answer that question, we have to take a look at the main SMS (short message service) protocols. The majority of the world’s texting is done using either the Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), High Speed Packet Access (HSPA) […]

In a forgotten time, if an organization wanted to secure their communications, all that they had to worry about was their conversations, postage and landlines. If a business was on the cutting edge of technology, it might use a fax machine as well. In 2019, things are a lot more complicated. To start with we, […]