Tag: tls

Enforcing Email Security with TLS when Communicating with Banks

November 3, 2008

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.

Remote MySQL Access Supports TLS for Security

October 27, 2005

Web hosting users with MySQL databases can now optionally use TLS (Transport Layer Security) when connecting to their MySQL databases from remote locations. Use of TLS ensures that all communications between these users and our MySQL servers are encrypted.

Email and Text Messaging Security in the Wired and Wireless Worlds

August 1, 2002

International Lecture by Dr. Erik Kangas “Internet email, Internet instant messaging, and mobile short text messaging are related in that they enable communications by pushing messages from sender to recipient over generally insecure networks. The security issues and vulnerabilities inherent in all three modes of communication are also very similar. This talk will review standard […]