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The American Bible Society Chooses the "Striata Document + Solution" for the Secure Delivery of Sensitive Documentation via Encrypted Email - ( Oct 2004 )
Sending confidential documentation via normal email is a very real and potentially disastrous security risk. Email can easily be intercepted, rerouted, copied, changed or even deleted, en route.
According to Nick Garbidakis, CTO of the American Bible Society, "The Striata Document + Secure Email Solution met our requirements for a cost-effective, rapidly deployed ASP solution, which does not impact our day to day email activities. Striata was able to implement the solution and train our personnel in less than three weeks."
Email is the ubiquitous business communication tool of this century
Email is an essential and integral part of any business' communication infrastructure, and has become one of the most mission critical tools available to any corporation, both internally & externally.
"Companies are freely using email to send and receive sensitive and confidential information without realizing the danger in doing so. More and more companies are now looking at secure email as an important application for reducing these security risks," says Garin Toren, COO of Striata.
Why does email need to be secure?
There are many messages that remain outside of the realm of email, due to the confidential nature of the documentation. These may include contracts, financial information, personal medical and other customer information, human resource related documentation etc. Secure email gives one the ability to send all of these types of documents quickly and confidentially, resulting in meaningful cost and time savings. There is a feeling of anonymity when it comes to email, mostly because of the large volumes delivered. This has created a false sense of security with respect to the confidentiality of the medium. Many individuals are therefore dangerously using email to send sensitive information.
Trust and security are key elements to mitigate the risks of accidental or fraudulent exposure of confidential information. There is potential danger to brand equity and the consideration of regulatory compliance.
A company that can authenticate and secure the delivery of such documentation via email has a strong competitive advantage to entrench its relationships with customers, partners and suppliers.
Is your company at risk? Do you comply with the required legislation?
There is significant recent legislation requiring companies to secure communications pertaining to sensitive information. These include:
- Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 places an emphasis on internal control, reporting and data access. Companies looking to achieve good corporate governance can use securely encrypted email and digital signatures to mitigate security risks, by providing their key staff with the necessary tools.
- HIPAA
- Gramm-Leach-Bliley
- California SB-1386
- PIPEDA (Canada)
There is specific mention of 'secure email' in most of these and some even go so far as to detail penalties for not doing so.
There is a growing understanding of the risks of not securing certain types of email content & attachments. By encrypting email in transit and storage, companies can reduce their risk of dangerous exposure.
When do you need to start securing your sensitive email?
There are many compelling reasons to implement a secure email solution in your organization. Your company can benefit through:
- Lowering document delivery costs
- Dramatically speeding up the time of delivery
- Reducing the risks of exposure
- Complying with required regulations and;
- Generally implementing better control of your sensitive documentation
The Striata Document+ Wizard: A cost effective, rapidly implemented, secure email ASP solution
There are many benefits to the Striata secure email solution:
- Implementation is very rapid - less than three weeks.
- The solution is very cost effective.
- User access is via a user-friendly secure browser based interface.
- Various document types are catered for.
- Implementation does not effect nor integrate with the companies' current IT infrastructure in any way.
- Delivery tracking is easily viewable and reported upon.
- All sent documents are available for resending. (And / or retrieving.)
- The recipient is able to decrypt the secure email in any mail client.
- The solution is managed entirely by the company and no third party involvement is required.
- Triple global ASP redundancy is a Striata standard.
- The solution is well proven with over 100 current customers worldwide.
Striata.
Striata is an application software developer and service provider focused on enabling secure electronic communication. The Striata Application Platform provides highly flexible, robust and scalable products deployable across multiple operating systems.
Striata specializes in the secure delivery & payment of Bills, Statements, Invoices and all other confidential documents, via encrypted email.
Striata has been a provider of software and services in the electronic messaging arena since 1999 and have offices in New York, London, Sydney and Johannesburg and partners in Dublin, Frankfurt, Atlanta, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Honolulu, Sydney and Cape Town. Visit www.striata.com.
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