Attention Real Estate Professionals, It's Time to Secure Your Email by Jason Leister
If you have a wireless laptop, listen up! It's time to make sure your email is secure. When you sit at your local coffee shop to surf the internet and get your email, you are most likely using a connection that is not encrypted. This means the data flying through the air from your laptop to the... Contact your ISP or web host and ask them if they support sending and receiving email with SSL encryption. ... Fortunately, most email providers offer the option to encrypt your email transmissions (both sending and receiving) with the same level of security that you find when you log into your...

Data Encryption by Matt Peterson
Computers give us a remarkable amount of convenience. With one machine, we can send mail and pictures to friends, go shopping, pay bills, make appointments and confirm any number of different pieces of information in our lives. But all of this convenience can be horribly misused in the case of... Portability – if you have a lot of data on USB flash drives or portable hard drives, portable data encryption is an ideal solution to ensure that your data that travels remains secure. ... Still others encrypt email and chat conversations for increased privacy and security.

Who Is Minding Your Sensitive Data? by Cavyl Stewart
Stealing company information used to be the specialty of spies and conspirators. It was something that only happened to the most powerful of corporations and branches of government. Nowadays, stealing data is commonplace and anyone can become a victim at any time. ... So it makes sense that 128-bit encryption software is more secure than 56-bit encryption software. ... Whether you need to protect your e-commerce website, your email, your business data or that of your clients, be sure you use encryption software.

How To Use A PDF Creator To Password Protect Any Document by Abby Randal
Are you afraid that an unauthorized person or party might open and read your confidential documents sent by email? You can easily prevent situations like these by protecting and encrypting your work with a password. In order to do this we are first going to convert your document to the well... Now most PDF Creators use a low-encryption method by default, but you might want to use a better encryption for higher security. ... You can simply modify the encryption-settings in the options panel: Selecting an 128-Bit Encryption 1) Open-up MyPDFCreator: Start->Program...

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act Has Forced Many Companies To Review Email Retention Policies. by Mike Colesante
Four years have passed since President Bush signed the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and most analysts agree the law is working as larger companies are finally getting their accounting books in order. The act was formulated to strengthen accounting oversight and corporate accountability. ... The policies these businesses put in place should include an inventory of all the electronic hardware and software that can store emails (including cell phones and laptops), all locations and storage formats of archived emails, and all the methods that email documents can be transferred into and out of the company.

Email Fight Club - Avoiding Spam, Spyware, Scams and Cookie Hunters by Barney Barnes
Email Fight Club Rules Follow these 10 common sense suggestions to avoid email trouble. 1. Suspect Everyone: Most unsolicited email is harmless junk from someone just hoping to make a sale or generate a list. However, there are some unscrupulous players out there ( You know...the one with the... If your messaging software doesn't support robust encryption, you can download PGP Freeware encryption software at (http://web.mit.edu/network/pgp.html). ... To avoid cookies sent via email, use email client software, such as Eudora Pro, that lets you shut off its automatic Web Browser rendering...

DRM Defending You by Mila Levkovsky
We’ve heard the diagnosis: viruses are rampant and hackers are on the loose. Get your firewall ready, activate your spam filter and turn on those email anti-theft controls. That’s right. Using Digital Rights Management (DRM) technology you can send personal information, original artwork and... Email anti-theft applications built on DRM technology are the counterpart to encryption, protecting your email once it reaches the recipient’s computer. ... Email anti-theft software with DRM provides both, the sender and recipient, peace of mind that sensitive data will remain confidential, rather...

Healthcare IT - Your Practice's Digital Wellness by Tony A. Mohr
Protecting a patient's PHI (Personal Health Information) has always been an important concept in the medical profession. New laws and government mandates have clearly taken this notion a step further: medical facilities failing to protect their patient’s PHI can be penalized under HIPAA. ... New email and document security technology, like email anti-theft software, utilizes encryption and rights controls. ... Medical offices which allow physicians to use email as a means of transmitting information must have an "email disclaimer" stating that the privacy of information contained in an...

Don't Steal My Information! by Jeff Casmer
It’s important to take the precautions to protect you and your products from information theft these days, because it’s getting easier and easier for people to share digital products. Information theft is a type of computer security risk and it’s defined as stealing an individual’s personal or... Some very popular email encryption software is known as Pretty Good Piracy (PGP) and Centurion Soft Secure Protection. ... One type of encryption software is Obfuscated code which is a programming language that is extremely hard to read.

Computer Security Tips for Privacy and Identity Protection by Debbie Jacobsen
Anti spyware software, anti virus software, and a good personal firewall provide the best protection against the majority of internet security threats that exist today. Although everyone using the internet should be using these products, I find that most casual internet users are only running an... Without the added protection of a software firewall and anti spyware software, there are still some things you can do to help ensure your personal information doesn’t get stolen by malicious spyware and you don’t become the victim of identity theft due to a phishing scam.