Everyone always harps on the necessity of privacy when discussing health care, government, and banking communications. It is surprising how little attention is paid to email security with regards to accounting and tax preparation. There is a real danger of identity theft, unintended information disclosure, as well as invasion of privacy when using tax preparation […]
You buy a HIPAA compliant web hosting infrastructure. You configure your web site to send out email messages in the simplest way, e.g. through PHP mail, or some other generic and standard mechanism. You think you are all set — but you are not. HIPAA compliant web hosting services provide a server infrastructure that allows […]
Read receipt requests are generally an extremely unreliable way to find out if your recipient has read an email messages that you have sent to him/her. Why? Because Some email programs do not support read receipts, and thus messages viewed with these would never send you a notice that the message was read. Programs that […]
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 […]
