Category: New Feature Announcements

HIPAA FAX Breach: Why health care should finally stop faxing

September 11, 2017

For more information, see: Hospital faxed a patient’s HIV-positive status to his workplace — he’s now suing for $2.5 million Is a FAXing really HIPAA-compliant? HIPAA Faxing: How To Send and Receive FAXes in a Secure and Compliant Way

DMARC: The State of Domain-based Email Authentication – Part 2

September 11, 2017

Building a safer email ecosystem with DMARC In our previous post, we described two techniques for authenticating an email sender: Sender Policy Framework (SPF), IETF RFC 7208, which verifies if the sending MTA is indeed authorized to send mail on behalf of a domain; and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), IETF RFC 6376, where a domain shows “ownership” of a mail […]

Is email message transport over MAPI or HTTPS secure?

September 5, 2017

Our latest “Ask Erik” question involves understanding what email headers save about secure message transport … especially when they list MAPI or HTTPS instead of TLS.

SPF and DKIM: The State of Domain-based Email Authentication – Part 1

September 1, 2017

Recent reports on cyber-security threats in the healthcare sector by Verizon, Symantec and Ponemon consistently make several observations: Email-borne malware is on the rise, with such malware delivered via spam or phishing; Small-to-medium sized businesses (from all sectors) have the highest rate of email-delivered malware; Most breaches are caused by negligent employees or contractors. These […]

Text “NO” to stop the HIPAA Violations

August 30, 2017