Tag: authentication

What exactly does HIPAA say about Email Security?

February 26, 2025

Performing daily business transactions and communications through electronic technologies is accepted, reliable, and necessary across the nation’s healthcare providers, payers and suppliers. As a result, email has become a standard in the healthcare industry as a way to conduct business activities that commonly include: Interacting with patients Real time authorizations for medical services Transcribing, accessing […]

Improve Account Security by Enabling Multifactor Authentication

May 17, 2022

This month, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) launched an initiative called MFA May to encourage individuals and businesses to enable multifactor authentication for their accounts. This article defines multifactor authentication and explains why organizations should implement it to improve the security of their accounts.   What is Multifactor Authentication? Multifactor authentication requires users […]

Zero Trust Email

July 20, 2021

Our third article on Zero Trust Architecture covers zero trust email and the systems it requires. In May, the Biden Administration announced a new approach to cybersecurity that included a push toward Zero Trust Architecture. We have already covered Zero Trust Architecture as a whole, and also talked about how dedicated servers are important parts […]

How to send unlimited email to someone for free and without authentication or SSL

September 14, 2012

We field questions daily from customers who need to configure some special software or piece of equipment to send them email, but can’t because their SMTP logins require authentication (e.g. a username and password), or their software/hardware cannot be configured to connect to specific SMTP ports, or maybe because their logins require SSL/TLS for transmission security but […]