Protect confidential data and prevent data leaks with secure email

Why standard email is not secure

Every day countless messages and files are exchanged, which often also contain privacy-sensitive information. Think of personal health data that goes from a patient to a healthcare organization or financial data from an accountant to a customer.  This is data that no one wants to fall into the wrong hands.

But how big is the chance that this cannot happen again?
The answer is simple: without the right technical and organizational measures, which are mandatory for the GDPR, this chance is very high.

This means standard email that doesn't take into account all security risks and offers no guarantee for secure communication. The time that only a strong password can keep a malicious person outside of your inbox and messages is a thing of the past.

Sending emails is so accessible that many of them are sent every day. But that is precisely why so much can go wrong - data can end up with the wrong people. 
So, what should we pay attention to? The answer is simple: the entire email process .
This is because there are many dangers before an email is sent, during the sending and even after sending an email.

By opting for email security, responding to the three best practices:

• Usability
• Awareness
• Check

The conscious processing of privacy-sensitive information in an email

SmartLockr makes secure communication possible in a simple way.

•   By using Machine Learning, sensitive information can be recognized in messages.
•   As an organization you can set the type of content for which you want to receive notifications.
•   The user is notified of this when sensitive, private content is processed in a message.
•   This increases awareness during emailing. So the chance of sending privacy sensitive via an unsafe route is reduced.

No access to the message between sending and receiving because of end-to-end encryption

•   Encrypt your messages and make sure that unauthorized persons are denied access. Due to end-to-end encryption, only the authenticated recipient can read the message. This means that the message is unreadable, even if this message is intercepted.
  
•   SmartLockr uses zero knowledge for this, whereby, we cannot view your emails. 
•   Your message will be sent via a secure Transport Layer Security Connection (TLS-connection), which protects the internet connection. Files are sent in a secure way via the internet.

Read more: How SmartLockr encrypts data, and transfers and stores data with encryption

A check on recipients and attachments

The main cause of data leaks is human error, sending personal or confidential data to the wrong recipient. That is why we have built in extra safety. SmartLockr Secure Email offers you the right tools to drastically reduce the chance of data leaks.

•   Before an email is sent, there is an additional check on the recipient (s) and attachments. This way, you avoid sending confidential information to the wrong recipient.
•   By responding to awareness, the chance of sending information to the wrong person can be reduced.