The Internet is rife with fake and forged email. Typically these are email messages that appear to be from a friend, relative, business acquaintance, or vendor that ask you to do something. If you trust that the message is really from this person, you are much more likely to take whatever action is requested — […]
There has been a lot of hype about Google offering a Business Associate Agreement to paid Google Apps customers who must abide by HIPAA regulations. Those who are familiar with Google may be under the incorrect assumption that simply signing up for Google Apps will solve all their HIPAA compliance challenges. This seems to be […]
Many years ago, it used to be that if you had a cell phone that had an email program included, you could configure using IMAP and SMTP to allow you to check email and send email…. just like how a desktop email program worked. This is still the case, of course. However, as far back […]
Yearly HIPAA Security Reviews are critical to meeting compliance requirements of all organizations under the HIPAA umbrella, either directly or via being a Business Associate. We have found that many organizations, especially the smaller ones, do not place much emphasis on these reviews, skip them, ignore them, or hope that they go away. They treat […]
The popularity and prevalence of DKIM in the fight against SPAM is growing such that as of August, 2014, 47% of the most popular domains in the USA are DKIM-enabled (reference); globally, that number is 38%. The trend is steadily upward and we expect DKIM use to be pervasive within a few more years. DKIM, […]
