Category Archives: Technology
A List of Our Own
The holiday season is in full swing. Bright lights are filling the night sky, and holiday carols can be heard across Pandora everywhere. With all the festivities, we can’t help but think of the big guy in red, making his … Continue reading
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
Is Email Encryption Like a Racecar?
Eric Ouellet, a Gartner Vice President, thinks so. How do they relate? When cars first entered the market, brakes were not included (a crazy thought!). When asked why brakes were added, most people naturally suggest that brakes enable drivers to … 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
Survey Series, Part 6: Study Summary and Next Steps to an Effective Email Encryption Strategy
During the past six weeks, we’ve examined the key findings of the Ponemon Institute study “The State of Email Encryption.” If you haven’t had a chance to read our survey blog series, here’s what you need to take away: • … Continue reading
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
Research Survey Series: Email Viewed as Source of Data Loss
Given ZixCorp’s position as the leader in email encryption services, the protection of our customers’ sensitive data in email has always been our top priority. This summer, we sponsored an email encryption study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, originally titled … 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
