For many of us, a summer vacation is fast approaching – quite possibly accompanied by the desire to finally switch off from being constantly bombarded with work emails.
Holiday Time is Detox Time
Tags: Detox // Email Security // Life Balance
Encrypting Sensitive Patient Data with Retarus E-Mail Encryption
Long-term care planning, complaint management, or current information about the progression of a disease – for senior care facilities and nursing homes active in the healthcare industry, daily communication with family members is essential. The preferred channel of communication these days is email. But installing complex end-to-end encryption is often much too involved for private users. And senior care facilities and nursing homes are ofte not in the position to provide IT support for end users either-
Tags: Email Encryption // Email Security // Healthcare
Crypto trojans: waves of attack are on the increase
About one third of all businesses has experienced ransomware attacks in the last six months. No virus protection software can offer 100% protection from such attacks. Nevertheless, security can be boosted substantially with the fourfold virus scan from Retarus E-Mail Security Services.
Tags: Email Security // Locky // Ransomware // Study
Security Alert: One in six emails contains a virus
After Locky, here comes KePanger, PowerWare and Petya: Retarus is currently observing a significantly higher incidence of the crypto trojan Locky, as well as new variations. Whilst in February only around 3% of all incoming emails were infected, the number of messages filtered in March due to viruses had already risen to 17%. This corresponds to a fivefold rise in comparison with the previous month and can be explained primarily by the large increase in ransomware.
Tags: Email Security // Locky // Ransomware // Security Alert
How to archive encrypted emails in a legally compliant manner
If emails don’t only have to be transmitted in encrypted form but also have to be archived in compliance with legal requirements, IT decision-makers often find themselves faced with a new problem: How can it be guaranteed that despite end-to-end encryption the message will remain readable throughout the archiving period? Even if the recipient concerned has already left the company.
Tags: Email Encryption // Email Security // Enterprise Email Archive // IT-Security