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HIPAA Compliant Emails Sent From your Web Site: Best Practices

Tuesday, January 7th, 2014

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 you to be compliant; however, it doesn’t make you compliant. Your web designers must make choices and program your site so that it properly respects ePHI. If they do not do all the appropriate things, you will be out of compliance. E.g. see: 7 steps to make your web site HIPAA-secure.

In particular, email messages sent in the “normal way” from a web site will go out insecurely in a way that will violate the HIPAA Security Rule if they contain ePHI of any kind. E.g. they will not be encrypted and will not be archived.

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Tags: archived, compliance, encrypted, ePHI, hipaa, secure email, secureform, web hosting, web site
Posted in LuxSci Library: HIPAA
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Do I need to Buy an SSL Certificate to use Secure Email?

Monday, September 23rd, 2013

Our sales staff have been asked this question countless times. It is a natural assumption that because SSL and TLS encryption of email (and web sites) requires use of an “SSL certificate“, that one must buy an SSL certificate in order to use such a service. Fortunately, the answer is always

You do not need to buy your own SSL certificate to use secure email.

We’ll explain why.

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Tags: client certificate, email security, encryption, secure email, ssl, ssl certificate, ssl email, tls
Posted in LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy
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Send a Secure Email to Anyone

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

As a healthcare provider, business owner, or educator, you need a way to communicate with clients, patients, customers, or colleagues who assume or require privacy and confidentiality of information. This may be a legal requirement for you as well. You need to be able to send and receive information securely, quickly, and easily.

Using LuxSci’s SecureLine Escrow service, you can send emails safely to anyone, regardless of their email provider.

o Send secure emails to anyone with an email address
o Receive secure replies
o Send and receive secure attachments
o Do it all from your existing email program or WebMail

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Tags: escrow, secure email, secure reply, secureline, webmail
Posted in Business Solutions
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Enforcing Email Security with TLS when Communicating with Banks

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

LuxSci has had many requests from clients who have to communicate with various banks and other security-conscious organizations asking 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 that LuxSci can take to lock down things even more for you.

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Tags: Bank of America, Bank of America Partner, BoA, encryption, pgp, s/mime, secure email, secureline, security, smtp, ssl, tls
Posted in Business Solutions, LuxSci Library: Security and Privacy
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