While most people might not know what PGP encryption is, almost everyone with access to an email account uses it regularly. It’s one of the most popular ways to digitally sign, encrypt or decrypt emailed documents, adding an additional level of security of email communications. But what might sound like a fairly dry and mundane […]
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 […]
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 […]
The short answer is “no” … unless you need to support web browsers 8+ years old on computers that cannot be patched or upgraded and which are not in the USA or Canada.
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.
