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Email Encryption is highly sought after as a product and feature these days. This is not only because of privacy concerns and general suspicion about where our information goes on the web, but also because of increased awareness of the expanding regulatory requirements placed upon companies to transmit sensitive information in a secure manner. ARead more

We get it, your boss won’t stop talking about PCI Compliance, and now you have to disable SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0 on your Windows Server machine, which may or may not accidentally shut off SQL. In order to prevent this from taking the step of partial disaster towards total disaster, all you need toRead more

TL;DR – Spectre and Meltdown are two recently announced vulnerabilities that allow private data to be accessed by otherwise unauthorized applications. Patches are coming out to mitigate risks, but these may also affect the speed of your devices and systems. Our recommendation is to hold off on updates, first updating any antivirus engines when Spectre/MeltdownRead more

Recently there has been a resurgence of an old security idea that “plain text email is the only safe email”.  The ASCII Ribbon campaign from 1998 was precisely about this. It shut down in 2013 as it fell on deaf ears. Is it time to bring back this idea and perhaps even turn it into aRead more

Now that DMARC is widely deployed, here are a few useful tricks to have up your sleeve when looking up their relevant DNS records. DMARC resolutions involve both SPF and DKIM resolutions. Often, IT admins will have to troubleshoot SPF and/or DKIM failures to determine why a DMARC record is also failing validation. In Windows,Read more