73% transmit highly sensitive data in company emails according to survey

The best security protection does not help if your employees use email to transmit sensitive data.
Email to exchange messages is from the early 1980s and has nott changed much since then. Without extra security precautions, email can be compromised because:

  • Email messages are generally not encrypted.
  • Email messages pass intermediate computers before reaching their destination. It is relatively easy for others to intercept and read messages.
  • Many Internet Service Providers (ISP) store copies of email messages on their mail servers before delivering. The backups of these can remain for up to several months on their server, despite deletion from the mailbox.
  • Several information fields in the email can often identify the sender, preventing anonymous communication.
We believe that there are several other reasons to consider alternative methods to emails, and think ProBindr is one approach that is worth looking at.

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=13178

FTP to exchange data with clients? There is a better way.

If we talk to new customers, it seems still a common problem for them to exchange data with their clients. FTP is a prominent solution most customers use today. As one digs deeper into this issue, the hurdles become obvious:
Employees complain about complex setups, and that they always need to involve IT to get permissions and to setup client accounts. Nearly everyone can tell a story about how long it took to get the system up and running. People that are more aware of the technology are seriously concerned about security.

It does not get any better on the client site, they typically receive an FTP server address, a password, and login information. Very often, clients distribute the login to other involved people. Additional effort is necessary to install an FTP client and restrictive Firewalls can even prohibit accessing the server.

To summarize, it is a pain for your employees to setup an FTP  solution, and it is also a pain for your customers to access it. On top, it is not secure at all: Often documents are distributed unencrypted, you are not able to see who updated a document, you cannot spot changes quickly, and you cannot exclude someone, who once received the login password without changing it for everyone else as well.

There is a better way do this… ProBindr: If we need to exchange data with our customers or partners: We create a new Binder on our shelf at useKit.com, add the people who need access to it by simply typing their email addresses, and drop the files, notes or anything else needed into the Binder. And it’s securely done!

Only the people you want to, have transparent access to the data they need. Changes become immediately visible, it is secured by bank level encryption and SSL, it is easy for everyone to understand, and it is affordable.

Keep you and your customers happy with ProBindr.

Free for private use and starting at only $30,–/month for professionals.

 

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