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 SSL has recently been replaced by TLS (Transport Layer Security).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 […]
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 […]
LuxSci has released its new Secure Form service. Quickly make your website or PDF forms secure and HIPAA-compliant. Receive the form data, including uploaded files, via secure email or download the data securely from LuxSci’s web interface. What form types are supported by Secure Form? Website forms that are hosted anywhere. File uploads up to […]
