You thought email was a simple concept, but you are at once confronted with a plethora of acronyms and jargon like POP, IMAP, WebMail, Aliases, Forwards, SMTP, IMAP, POP, Quota, SPAM, TLS, SSL, Archival, and more! This article describes the ins and outs of email, explains these terms, and helps you figure out what services […]
The Secure Socket Layer, SSL for short, is a protocol by which enables services that communicate over the Internet to do so securely. SSL has recently been replaced by TLS (Transport Layer Security). TLS is newer and more secure than SSL (See TLS vs SSL: What is the difference?); however, from a lay-person’s perspective of […]
SSL certificates are pervasively used on the Internet for securing all the data sent between servers, devices, clouds, phones, computers, etc. SSL certificates are intrinsic in the encryption of communications using “SSL and TLS” (how do these work? What is the difference?) — you can’t have secure communications without them! In this article, we answer many common […]
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.
