Category Archives: Simple to Use
The Role of Public and Private Keys in Email Encryption and Transparency
A fundamental technology that makes email encryption possible (though not at all easy) is Public Key Cryptography (PKI). To understand how PKI works in email encryption, it’s important to start with three basic ideas: 1) Keys (public or private) are … Continue reading
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Tagged Email Encryption, Key Management, PKI, Public Key Cryptography, Security, Transparency, ZixDirectory
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Going the Extra Mile Delivers Competitive Advantage
Email encryption enables businesses to confidently exchange sensitive information with customers and partners. It protects outbound email and automatically encrypts any replies. But what happens when customers and partners need to initiate a secure email from their side? How can … Continue reading
Posted in Email Encryption Trends, Privacy, Simple to Use
Tagged Communication, Customer Confidence, Ease of use, Mobility, privacy, Security
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Law Firm: Cryptography is Going Mainstream
On the Privacy and Security Matters blog sponsored by the Mintz Levin law firm, Sara Crasson has a great observation about the growing use and importance of encryption to protect sensitive data – including sensitive data in email. The Internet … Continue reading
TLS: Out with Old Risks, In with New Features
Many organizations try to reduce the risks of email by implementing transport layer security (TLS) between email servers. TLS is a protocol that’s designed to provide privacy between communicating servers and their users on the Internet. When an organization’s server … Continue reading
Posted in Email Encryption Trends, Privacy, Simple to Use, Technology
Tagged Data Loss, Ease of use, policies, Security, TLS, Transparency
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Survey Series, Part 3: Ease of Use and How It impacts Data Protection
In Part 1 and Part 2 of our survey series, we stressed the importance of easy-to-use email encryption and how it alleviates concerns about email data loss. It appears we aren’t the only ones who think so. The Ponemon survey … Continue reading
Survey Series, Part 2: Mobile email concerns and how technology can help or hinder business
In Part 1 of our survey series, we examined the insecurity of email and the risks associated with employee behavior. What adds yet another layer of complication to email protection? Mobility. Of 830 IT, IT security and compliance practitioners, 70% … Continue reading
Survey Series, Part 1: Why organizations view email as a main source of data leaks
The 2011 “State of Email Encryption” study offered some startling results, beginning with the revelation that 59 percent of respondents strongly agree or agree that the use of email by employees is one of the main sources of data leakage … Continue reading
Why not encrypt everything? The Value of Policy Configuration
Push and pull delivery methodologies have evolved and improved over many years, and “ease of reading” has become better. At the end of the day though, reading encrypted messages requires more clicks and/or keystrokes than transparent encrypted messages, which require … Continue reading
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Tagged automatic encryption, lexicons, Mobility, policies, Policy-based Email Encryption, Security
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Easy Living and Easy Email Encryption
Summer is such a positive time for so many. Its appeal is obvious: it’s a simple time. Simplified evenings (not as many kids obligations), simplified travel (no snow to battle), and simplified meals (fire up that grill). This theme of … Continue reading
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Tagged Ease of use, Mobility, Transparency
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Simplicity Must be the Priority in Security
For security solutions, simplicity is required for everyday use and real compliance. The protection of email and sensitive data is simple… as long as you stay within your company network. The complications begin when you introduce customers, business partners and … Continue reading
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Tagged Communication, Ease of use, Security, Transparency
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