"Sendmail Inc. joined forces with Hewlett-Packard Co. and Intel Corp. to announce Monday a joint offering to bring e-mail to deskless workers, mostly in the health care and manufacturing sectors."
Whether using this recently announced Sendmail/HP solution, or another mail solution for deskless and wireless workers: a friendly security reminder. Wireless and other mobile workers usually access email over an insecure and unprotected link. For companies that don't want to, or can't, protect the traffic using a VPN w/encryption, at least encrypt the mail from the server to the client. This is especially important for sectors like healthcare where private data is often exchanged via email.
Sendmail supports TLS (transport layer security) via its Mailstream manager, and most mail clients and servers support some kind of SSL (secure sockets layer) encryption as well.
Posted by Diana at May 13, 2003 07:44 AM