The Secure Socket Layer, SSL for short, is a protocol by which enables services that communicate over the Internet to do so securely. SSL has recently been replaced by TLS (Transport Layer Security). TLS is newer and more secure than SSL (See TLS vs SSL: What is the difference?); however, from a lay-person’s perspective of […]
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 […]
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 […]
