Julie gives her clients access to their Accounts she has prepared and likes the security conscious environment that digiPost provides as it reassures her clients that she is up to speed on security. Julie protects the integrity of J&C Accountancy Services.

You will see Julie add the accounts files, protects the post with a passcode which is sent via text message to her client.

Today, Apple has rolled out a new two-step verification service for iCloud and Apple ID users. This functionality greatly enhances the security of Apple accounts because it requires users to use a trusted device and an extra security code.

This security code can be sent via SMS or via the Find my iPhone iOS app (if it is installed). Users can now setup two-step authentication on their devices via the Apple ID website. Users need to access the security tab on this website to conduct the setup process.

More information is available here.

US attorneys and lawyers benefit from the simplicity and security in the digiPost secure email platform.

Sending and receiving secure documents and messages through digiPost couldn’t be simpler and now that digiPost supports world SMS/Text messaging and timezone support a new wave of interest has hit the secure platform provider. Similar to the UK solicitors, lawyers and attorneys in the US transmit thousands of confidential documents through the standard postal service. Times are changing and digiPost provides the mechanism to ensure that documents and messages are kept safe and secure between sender and recipient.

In a recent statement digiPost announced that it will soon extend it’s device support by introducing it’s native iOS App. iPad and iPhone users will soon be able to communicate with the digiPost cloud providing greater access to mobile secure email services.

21st October 2012 digiPost the secure, traceable, recorded delivery email solution is pleased to announce version 1.93 of its advanced cloud-based confidential Conversation platform.

digiPost now includes timezone support, US SMS/Text password support and outbound SMS/Texts are now labelled DIGIPOST (where supported by the carrier).

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When the personal email accounts of Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin were hacked it made the news, but the vast majority of people don’t believe their personal or business email is under attack. Cases like the decade-long monitoring of email belonging to Nortel executives prove that email communication is in fact incredibly valuable and therefore highly targeted by cybercriminals.

To test the point, we surveyed more than 400 IT professionals about the types of information sent via their company email systems and what they are doing to secure access to it.

Nearly three-quarters (73%) of respondents consider the data they transmit in company email to be highly sensitive.

Survey respondents indicated the following proprietary documents were likely sent via their company email: Proprietary Company Information – Business Process and Corporate Strategy (59%) Sales Communications – Sales Quotes and RFPs (54%) Sensitive Information About Customers (49%) Intellectual Property – Product Roadmaps and Designs (48%) Company Financials – Budgets and Sales Forecasts (46%)

Larger companies also reported HR Information, such as compensation plans and reviews, (47%) and Individual Employee Information, such as social security numbers and personal data, (38%) as being commonly sent through email.

The information their corporate executives transmit is considered even more sensitive, including material like: Budgeting Plans/Details (76%) Product Roadmap Plans (63%) Sensitive Compensation Issues (47%) Potential Layoffs and Reorganizations (45%) M&A Activities (33%)

If information from a senior executive was compromised, respondents surmised the top three impacts to their business would include: Public Embarrassment/Hit to Company Reputation (59%) Lost Trust Among Customers (54%) Lost Trust Among Employees (49%)

Read More | Help Net Security | Companies Routinely Share Sensitive Information Via Email

Will email soon replace the letter? Some experts say the writing is on the wall for the friendly local mail carrier even as new forms of digital document delivery are beginning to make inroads.

E-commerce has dealt a big blow to the U.S. Post Office. First-class mailings have dropped by half in the past decade and the agency is losing $25 million a day. It’s considering cancelling Saturday and perhaps Friday delivery.

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“The very idea of the letter is becoming rapidly extinct,” said Jeff Jarvis, author of “Public Parts: How Sharing in the Digital Age Improves the Way We Work and Live” and professor of journalism at the City University of New York. “With the shift of marketing dollars from paper to digital, at the same time with the growth of parcel delivery (by private firms), we’re going to see continuing disruption. That changes everything about the postal service.”

Congress and the USPS have been at odds over plans by Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe to close 3,700 local post offices and 220 processing plants throughout the country in order to save money. The agency faces mounting losses that reached $3.3 billion at the end of 2011, according to Bloomberg News.

While weekend mail service may be in jeopardy, there are alternatives that use a combination of electronic documents and paper delivery, according to Marshall Van Alstyne, a visiting research professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Digital Business. Van Alstyne says that consumers could soon be getting mail delivered to digital, encrypted mailboxes from which they could scan and print out important documents.

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Read more: MAIL VERSUS EMAIL: WHO WILL WIN? | Secure email | Post office | Recorded Delivery

Due to increasing consumer comfort with technology, broader access to the Web, and companies’ focus on cost reduction, we are seeing an increased interest in secure digital mail services in the United States. While some global markets have been successful in driving consumer and mailer adoption, the U.S. is a substantially larger and more fragmented market. At the same time, however, it is only a matter of time before secure digital mail services take hold in an environment where consumers want greater convenience, security, control, and environmental friendliness.

What is Secure Digital Mail?

“Secure digital mail” refers to new cloud-based mail consolidation that will empower consumers to receive, view, organize, and manage bills, statements, direct marketing, catalogs, coupons, and other content from multiple providers using a single application. It is designed as an electronic version of the user’s traditional mailbox with additional capabilities such as online bill payment, organizational tools, content uploading capabilities, and archiving. Early consolidation services were focused strictly on bill and statement consolidation, but secure services extend capabilities way beyond this.

It Starts With Consumer Awareness

During InfoTrends’ study entitled The Future of Electronic Bill Presentment and Payment in North America, consumers were asked about their familiarity with bill consolidators. While this survey questioned just a sampling of providers, it provides some interesting insights. Beyond consumers’ banking Websites and some general familiarity with Quicken (likely as a financial management tool, not as a bill consolidator), consumers in North America are not very familiar with bill consolidators. In fact, only 26% of consumers were familiar with bill consolidators other than their own banking Websites and Quicken.

digiPost provides email security and enables you to deliver secure, traceable, recorded delivery email.

Read more: The Rise of Secure Digital Mail | Secure Email | Secure Digital Mail

digiPost Secure Email ensures that your communication data is encrypted and protected from the controversial snooping laws proposed by government. digiPost compliments your existing email rather than replacing it – a simple to use secure email solution.

Liberal Democrat MPs are set to meet with major tech companies on Monday to talk about the technical aspects of the controversial snooping laws proposed by the government, amongst other issues, TechWeekEurope has learned.

MP for Cambridge Julian Huppert said it was important to have discussions about the technical viability of the law. Representatives from Google, Facebook and major ISPs have agreed to attend.

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“The briefing will focus on the technical aspects because I believe that Lib Dem parliamentarians and policy makers need to understand the technical aspects of this as well as the principles and the liberties aspects,” Huppert, a Liberal Democrat MP, told TechWeekEurope.

“It’s a technical briefing on a whole range of issues.”

Huppert made his comments during a briefing at the London School of Economics, revealing he was asked by deputy prime minister Nick Clegg to call in tech companies for discussions.

The MP called for discussions with all relevant parties, not just technology companies. “If you just talk to Google or Facebook they will give you their line,” he added.

Much of the focus of Monday’s meeting will go towards determining whether it is possible to separate content data from communications data. The proposals from the government asserted that only details on who was interacting with who would be recorded and used by GCHQ.

Read more: MPs will meet with tech companies to discuss controversial new proposals | Snooping Law | Security

Pitney Bowes expects 2012 to be the year that ‘digital mailboxes’ break into the mainstream, but to complement not replace printed mail.
The US-based mailing giant will showcase its Volly system at Drupa. The product is billed as a “digital delivery service for high-volume mailers”.

Essentially, it creates a secure channel for approved mailers to contact customers, without the risks or spam of email and without the costs of regular post.

The service was launched in January 2011, though Pitney Bowes has yet to make a broad push.

The US$5.4 billion-turnover company said it doesn’t agree with the “if you build it they will come” approach of some of its rivals.

Instead, Pitney Bowes has been quietly enlisting bulk mailers in the US so that first-time Volly users will immediately be able to receive a significant portion of their mail via the online portal.

“It is like having iTunes without music. It doesn’t matter how pretty it is, if it doesn’t have content, it doesn’t have sign-on,” said Chuck Cordray, Pitney Bowes’ president of Volly.

“Why have none of the digital mailboxes taken off in the US? One is density – you need two-thirds to three-quarters of your mail before a digital mailbox becomes compelling.”

Read more Alternative to printed mail about to break through | Documents | Print | Email | ProPrint

Almost two-thirds of Irish businesses in a survey said staff members have sent confidential business information over email.

Of the total 63pc, 35pc had sent out proprietary company details by email, and 28pc had sent customers’ financial or identity information the same way.

Almost one in four respondents (23pc) said they had to discipline an employee for sending confidential business information over email, and in 4pc of cases such an incident led to dismissal.

Some 200 Irish IT executives were polled for the survey carried out by iReach on behalf of the IT distributor DataSolutions. The research was split into two parts, covering intrusion prevention from external threats and data loss caused by the accidental or intentional actions of internal personnel.

The survey also suggests that as many as 14,000 Irish businesses have had their data compromised. The figure was arrived at by using the total number of active Irish enterprises as registered with the Central Statistics Office and the survey finding that 7pc of respondents admitted their data had been compromised.

digiPost helps business send secure email communication, double locking messages that contain super sensitive data.

Read more High numbers of Irish firms admit to sending sensitive data by email | Security | Email | Silicon Republic