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Secure Email
IT Solutions that Work^SM

Overview

There are several ways to go with email for a healthcare organization.

External Hosted
Internal mail server
Email Appliance

External hosted solutions are fine for normal business email, but when it comes to compliance, they fall short unless they are a specialized secure email host with a deep understanding of the security and regulations. The reason is that email is one the top ways the privacy information is breached and a leading source of infections from information harvesting trojans.

IT Solutions that Work^SM

One solution we like is to use the FortiMail Appliance in as a stand alone mail server or (more typically) in combination of a hosted solution. There many reasons, but here are a few:

FortiMail Features

Proven Security

The FortiMail family of appliances is a proven, powerful messaging security platform for any size organization from small health clinics to large hospitals. Purpose-built for the most demanding messaging systems, the FortiMail appliances utilize Fortinet’s years of experience in protecting networks against spam, malware, and other message-borne threats.

Intelligent Protection
You can prevent your messaging systems from becoming threat delivery systems (i.e. robot) with FortiMail. Its inbound filtering engine blocks spam and malware before it can clog your network and affect users. Its outbound inspection technology prevents outbound spam or malware from causing other antispam gateways to blacklist your users (including 3G mobile traffic).

Secure Content Delivery
FortiMail enables identity-based encryption (IBE) to ensure secure delivery of confidential or regulated content. IBE uses full public key encryption to encrypt messages for your patients, customers, employees, or partners, without an additional cost. There is no additional hardware or software to install, no user provisioning, and no pre-enrollment for recipients, making it extremely easy to deploy.

This is an excellent way to interact with patients and staff in secure manner that is HIPAA compliant.

Data Loss Prevention
FortiMail includes customizable, predefined dictionaries that detect the accidental or intentional loss of confidential or regulated data. You can choose to block messages
containing data matching a range of patterns, including credit card numbers, social security and social insurance numbers, and bank routing numbers. Alternatively, you
can create policies to require the encryption of messages carrying this data.The Fortimail appliance works seamlessly with most hosted solutions and internal mail servers.

Here is the link to the FortiMail Datasheet. Please Contact us learn more about these appliances (and others) to see what is the best fit for your organization!

Kerio Connect: The MS Exchange Alternative

If you are running your own mail server or thinking of it, you may want to consider an excellent alternative to rather bloated and difficult to manage solution that an Exchange server brings. This alternative is Kerio Connect, a product we have selling for many years.

Kerio Connect in conjunction with the FortiMail appliance is the most secure, cost effective and easily maintained solution for those running an internal (non-hosted) mail server.

Kerio is Five Solutions in One

Cross-platform collaboration	Manage email, access global contacts and schedule meetings in Outlook, Entourage, iCal, webmail and smartphones.
Wireless mobile synchronization	Synchronize with any smartphone over the air. Delete sensitive data on lost or stolen devices.
Robust email security	Stop unwanted emails with over 14 anti-spam techniques and dual anti-virus protection. ( active if you are not using a Fortimail appliance)
Email archiving	Maintain compliance and minimize liabilities.
Automated backup	Backup and restore data without server downtime.

The feature is very robust and if curious, here is the link the Datasheet and here is the link for the Kerio vs. Exchange comparison

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