I once co-wrote a book on enterprise email where I likened email encryption to a “sucking chest wound.” That was in 1997, when you had to do all the encryption key management on your own, a daunting ...

Emailing sensitive documents to clients without email encryption leaves businesses at risk of being victimized by hackers who intercept emails to steal data and commit crimes like identity theft or ...

Many Americans have expressed concern over the Bush administration's eavesdropping program. But there's a simple solution for anyone concerned with prying eyes, at least when it comes to e-mail: ...

To secure your email effectively, you should encrypt three things: the connection from your email provider; your actual email messages; and your stored, cached, or archived email messages. If you ...

Email encryption is the process of converting email information or data into a code, one that cannot be accessed by unauthorized people. Ok let me simplify it for you, the best analogy is that ...

Anyone concerned about unwanted third parties such as big businesses or even hackers accessing sensitive data or conversations carried out via email might be interested in this quick guide which shows ...

Remember the OpenPGP and S/MIME email encryption wars? Back then, it was all about which encryption protocol would become the standard for protecting email messages from prying eyes. The headache and ...

Data security and protection provider IronBox has launched an e-mail encryption product designed specifically for accounting and law firms. Its new IronBox for Microsoft Outlook plugin aims to make ...

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Google, Microsoft and Proton launched new end-to-end encryption products to confront the 50% increase in ransomware, phishing and other email-vector attacks from the first half of 2022. Image: faithie ...

A Palo Alto, Calif., start-up has its sights set on making sure that more people encrypt their e-mail. Voltage Security's e-mail encryption system is a slight twist on the current practice of using a ...