For my secure email project, I learned to send a digitally signed email and an encrypted email. Secure emails are a great way to protect your data, and I enjoyed the chance to learn about this protection measure. The screen capture below shows my Thunderbird inbox where I sent the two emails, and the following link and summary offer an additional example of secure emails.
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| Screen Capture of Thunderbird Account Inbox created by me. |
As many businesses have discovered, secure email is a useful and important tool for guarding company and customer data. A recent New York Times article (see link above) talks of how Highmark, Inc. secures company emails through the encryption services of Zix Corporation. The article states that though Highmark had apparently been using a different secure email provider for some time, the company recently made the decision to employ Zix Corp’s services for three of Highmark’s companies. The main reason for the switch lies in Zix Corp’s ease of use. Since Highmark Inc. is a trusted healthcare provider and a licensee of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, data protection is a must. As the article explains, Highmark fully realized the necessity of secure email communications, and the company also understood the importance of having security measures that were not overly burdensome to employees and in the way of productivity. Thus, Highmark turned to the ZixCorp ® Email Encryption Services for more reliable and simplistic protection. The article concludes with a brief description of Highmark Inc. and ZixCorp. I personally found the article both interesting and informative. I was shown yet another example of how important secure email is to organizations and how the right kind of secure email provider can make all the difference in protecting data efficiently.
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