We all know that regular email is insecure; however, it may surprise you to learn just how insecure it really is. For example, did you know that messages you deleted years ago may be on servers halfway around the world? Or that your messages can sometimes be read and modified in transit, even before they […]
Creating HIPAA Compliant forms starts with creating a secure website. This process is more complex than creating web pages and adding an SSL Certificate. A certificate is a solid first step, but it only goes so far as to protect whatever sensitive data necessitates security in the first place. Naive attempts at security can ultimately […]
Secure email sending is a priority for organizations that communicate sensitive data externally. One of the most common ways to send secure emails is with SMTP TLS. TLS stands for Transport Layer Security and is the successor of SSL (Secure Socket Layer). TLS is one of the standard ways that computers on the internet transmit […]
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 […]
Standard SSL Certificates are issued by an Certificate Authority (CA) such as Thawte after the CA performs some basic standard validation on the identity of the certificate request to ensure that the certificate is not issued to “the wrong hands”. The types of validation performed for standard SSL certificates vary by the type and cost […]
