TLS (Transport Layer Security) is a cryptographic protocol that allows secure communication over a network. It uses a certificate issued by a trusted CA (certificate authority) to encrypt connections between clients and servers. These certificates must be renewed periodically to ensure continued data privacy.
The pandemic has ushered in a paradigm shift in how businesses communicate with their customers. As organizations in healthcare, finance, and other highly regulated industries rely more heavily on email communication, their employees continue to send sensitive data such as medical and financial information through email. This makes email privacy more important than ever, and there are several ways to implement it, but with varying levels of complexity.
2020 has been a banner year for cybercriminals. They have stolen billions of dollars and data on billions of individuals by preying on widespread fear and uncertainty brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Now that the Covid crisis is behind us, remote and hybrid work is no longer an emergency arrangement, yet many people continue to work from home as it becomes a more widely-accepted practice. According to Gallup's latest workplace research, roughly 52% of remote-capable U.S. employees now work in a hybrid arrangement and another 27% are fully remote, leaving fewer than one in four back in the office full time. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that more than a fifth of all employees still telework at least part of the time. After years of return-to-office headlines, the data shows hybrid has settled in as the default for knowledge work rather than fading away.
The COVID-19 crisis has changed the way we approach data privacy and email security. The necessary and accelerated transition to working from home has been accompanied by a growing surge of Coronavirus-themed phishing scams and spoofed websites used to distribute malware or lure victims into providing confidential information.
The COVID-19 pandemic’s global spread has paved the way for threat actors to unleash the most widely-used cyber threat in recent memory. And healthcare entities are the most frequent target.
The COVID-19 crisis has changed the way we approach data privacy and email security as the transition to working from home has been accompanied by a growing surge of Coronavirus themed phishing scams and spoofed websites used to distribute malware or lure victims into providing confidential information.
Many businesses are responsible for maintaining large amounts of confidential data, including customer records, medical records, financial reports, legal documents, and much more. It’s very common for these types of information to be transmitted via email, especially as the Covid-19 pandemic has forced many businesses to embrace working from home. So how can you ensure confidential data transmitted via email is kept private? How can you ensure the integrity of transmitted data?
How often have you heard someone say, "If you're not doing anything illegal, then you have nothing to hide?" When asked this, I tend to respond with, "OK, then how about you give me the login credentials for all of your email accounts, including the ones you use for personal use?"
You may have heard the terms SSL and TLS, but do you know what they are and how they’re different?
