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Considerations When Drafting a BYOD Policy

Posted by Debbie Howlett (February 13, 2013) | Tags : BYOD, email security, Bring Your Own Device, email policy, data protection

Whether you’re an end user or an IT administrator, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) is becoming the rule rather than the exception in today’s workplace. Although BYOD may be a convenience to your employees, you need to think about its impact on your corporate security.


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School Board Email is a Public Record

Posted by Debbie Howlett (November 08, 2012) | Tags : email, public record, Pennsylvania, Right to Know Law, Supreme Court

A decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court should serve as a reminder that email correspondence through school-issued accounts is not private, though critics of the ruling fear it could result in a substantial cost to local districts.

Pennsylvania residents can read the email messages of elected officials under a decision in favor of a local newspaper, the Morning Call, recently upheld by the state Supreme Court.

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eDiscovery Considerations When Moving to the Cloud

Posted by Pierre Chamberland (November 07, 2012) | Tags : cloud based messaging, electronic discovery, cloud computing, email, privacy laws, data retention, eDiscovery, email migration, cloud migration, Office 365

Cloud based messaging providers stress the significant efficiencies to be gained when marketing their services. Cloud computing services may have a significant impact on your organization’s ability to comply with eventual electronic discovery obligations.

Courts have traditionally held companies responsible for preserving and producing electronic data that is within the organization’s “possession, custody or control.” If your email records reside with a third-party as a result of a contract to provide a service to your organization, consider it likely that you will be considered in “control” of your email records, even if they are not in your actual possession.


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A Strange Email, Google, and DKIM

Posted by Debbie Howlett (November 07, 2012) | Tags : DKIM, domain keys, email, google, cloud computing, Netmail Secure, DNS, spoofing

It was a strange email, coming from a job recruiter at Google, asking Zachary Harris if he was interested in a position as a site-reliability engineer. “You obviously have a passion for Linux and programming,” the email from the Google recruiter read. “I wanted to see if you are open to confidentially exploring opportunities with Google?”

Harris was intrigued, but skeptical. The email had come to him last December completely out of the blue, and as a mathematician, he didn’t seem the likeliest candidate for the job Google was pitching. So he wondered if the email might have been spoofed – something sent from a scammer to appear to come from the search giant. But when Harris examined the email’s header information, it all seemed legitimate.

Then he noticed something strange. Google was using a weak cryptographic key to certify to recipients that its correspondence came from a legitimate Google corporate domain. Anyone who cracked the key could use it to impersonate an email sender from Google, including Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

The problem lay with the DKIM key Google used for its google.com emails. DKIM involves a cryptographic key that domains use to sign e-mail originating from them – or passing through them – to validate to a recipient that the domain in the header information on an e-mail is correct and that the correspondence indeed came from the stated domain. When email arrives at its destination, the receiving server can look up the public key through the sender’s DNS records and verify the validity of the signature. For security reasons, the DKIM standard calls for using keys that are at least 1,024 bits in length. But Google was using a 512-bit key – which could be easily cracked with a little cloud-computing help.

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Want to Join Our Winning Team?

Posted by Stephanie Greenshields (April 25, 2012) | Tags : positions, winning team, Montreal Top Employers 2012

In February 2012, Messaging Architects celebrated a great achievement when we were recognized as one of Montreal's Top Employers 2012 by the editors of Canada's Top 100 Employers. In particular, we were recognized for our continuous commitment to providing an exceptional work environment. The celebration continues as Nick Stefan, VP of R&D, celebrates his 10 year anniversary with Messaging Architects.

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