Tag: security

Dedicated Servers: How They Improve Security And Reliability

December 8, 2020

What’s best for your organization, shared or dedicated servers? If your company is looking for website hosting, an email provider, or hosting for other online services, this question may not be high up on its list of priorities. The differences between shared and dedicated servers may not seem particularly important at first. However, this choice […]

LuxSci Achieves HITRUST CSF Certification

October 22, 2020

LuxSci announces today that it has achieved the HITRUST CSF Certification, the gold standard and most widely adopted security framework in the healthcare industry. What is HITRUST CSF Certification and why should it matter? Today, we are very proud to announce that LuxSci has achieved the HITRUST CSF Certification, the gold standard and most widely […]

Remote Work & Its Cybersecurity Implications

June 4, 2019

Remote work has become a hot topic in recent years, with the rise of digital nomads as well as those who just want to sleep in, skip traffic and avoid their bosses. The increased flexibility can be great for workers, while organizations can save on office costs and even boost employee morale. Despite the potential […]

Master Password Encryption in FireFox and Thunderbird

February 27, 2019

If you are allowing Mozilla FireFox or Thunderbird to remember passwords to web sites and/or email accounts in their Password Manager tool, you should know that these passwords are all stored in a plain text file (base64 encoded) on your computer’s disk drive.  This file is accessible to anyone with administrative access to your computer.  […]

SSL versus TLS – What’s the difference?

May 12, 2018

SSL versus TLS TLS (Transport Layer Security) and SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) are protocols that provide data encryption and authentication between applications and servers when that data is sent across an insecure network. The terms SSL and TLS are often used interchangeably or in conjunction with each other (TLS/SSL), but one is, in fact, the […]