People's Security Choice Award Winner

We're pleased to announce that the CertifiedMail Secure Messaging System (the software that powers our CertifiedMail Server and CertifiedMail ASP Site) received the most votes overall, and was also the category winner for Integrated Security Solutions.  

CertifiedMail Awarded Grand Prize in Microsoft® Office System Partner Solution Builder Contest

Send Certified(TM) transparently integrates CertifiedMail Secure Email messaging solution with the Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express clients. Send Certified(TM) plug-in puts the above icon in the Outlook toolbar and the user simply clicks on the Send Certified(TM) button to send an email securely. This is a major benefit to Outlook email client users enabling them to securely send email messages containing sensitive information such as PHI, financial data, intellectual property information etc. and for SARS and King II compliance.

Enforcing Confidential E-mail Communications in your company?

Corporate governance is often spoken about in the industry and many Company Policies focus on this, but it is seldom enforced, which can easily lead to confidentiality leaks, most often via e-mail.  CertifiedMail guarantees secure delivery of confidential e-mail messages making your company comply with company policies and procedures and current legislation.

 Thanks to the Electronic Communications and Transactions (ECT) Act and the King II Report on Corporate Governance, executives have to pay more attention to electronic communication like e-mail and how it is used.  E-mail is a vital business tool and all e-mail messages are now considered valid legal documents. So how do companies enforce an e-mail policy that is in line with the ECT Act? 

You cannot trust your employees to follow a company policy 100%, so in terms of confidential communications, you will have to setup processes to do this for you. A solution to this is an intelligent piece of software such as a Content Filter, which blocks all outgoing e-mail that is Confidential.  You may define this by using specific keywords – such as ‘confidential' or ‘tender' – within the message header, subject or body of the mail. The problem with this is that business often requires this communication to leave the network.  How does one get around this problem?”

The solution is a CertifiedMail Gateway Server. By using the content filter to direct important confidential communications and documents to a CertifiedMail Gateway, where the e-mail then resides, one takes away the danger that would exist over a normal e-mail channel, that of the wrong people intercepting your important documents.  The message would be stored on the CertifiedMail Server and an e-mail would be sent to the user, informing them they have a message waiting. They would then log on over a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and, after inputting a username and password, would be able to access the e-mail.  One of the biggest threats to e-mail privacy in a company is its own or outsourced mail administrator, who inevitably has access to all corporate communications.  A system requiring user ID along with strong encryption reduces the risk of an administrator or network user gaining access to it.

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