It's hard to believe but it's been almost six years since California enacted its landmark security breach statute, that led the way to 44 other states to follow suit. Interestingly, though California has always been known as the liberal lion that wags the tail, it appears that Massachusetts and Nevada have turned the statutory landscape on its head by enacting much more stricter, front-end encryption statutes. Will states move in the direction of Nevada and Massachusetts?

The Federal legislation "Cybersecurity Act of 2009" was submitted to Congress in April 2009. A link to the legislation is provided here. The most talked about and controversial piece of the legislation is the looming threat of placing in federal hands unprecedented authority over the public and private Internet.

If you’ve been following us (blog, Twitter, website, etc.), you’ll know that email and FTP are not effective ways to securely exchange documents.  That’s why file transfer solutions exist today – google that phrase and you’ll find a ton of them out there.

We’ve all heard that email is not secure.  But how and why is email insecure? 

Email is typically sent like this; the sender’s email client (e.g. Outlook) sends an email to the sender’s email server using SMTP protocol.  Then sender’s server sends the email to the recipient’s server, also using SMTP.  Then the recipient downloads the email from the recipient’s server.  

Why this isn’t secure?