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 SSL has recently been replaced by TLS (Transport Layer Security).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 […]
FTP, the “File Transfer Protocol” has been around almost since the inception of the Internet. As anyone with a web site knows, it permits files to be easily uploaded to and downloaded from servers. It is built into every kind of web site authoring software and even into most web browsers. Unfortunately, FTP suffers from […]
Customer feedback is extremely important to LuxSci and we have listened once again. Customers faced with the need for HIPAA-compliant email now have the option to decide on a per-message basis which messages need encryption (e.g. contain Protected Health Information – PHI) and which do not. Routine non-PHI-laden correspondence no longer needs to be encrypted and users […]
Can I block this one IP that is scanning our accounts? Can I restrict my account so that people can only access it from our office network, or require that they authenticate to WebMail first (using two-factor authentication)? LuxSci is constantly asked for fine-grained access controls by customers who are in shared environments (sharing the […]
You are proactive and security conscious. You use end-to-end encryption software, like PGP or S/MIME or LuxSci SecureLine, to send your sensitive messages to their destinations, ensuring that the message content is encrypted the entire way … because otherwise, email is just plain insecure. Oh – but what about the copies of these messages saved […]
