Government Regulations on E-mail

Overview

Depending on your line of business, you may fall under one or more government or industry regulations that require your company to take certain steps to secure electronic communications pertaining to your operation. If you are involved in the health care industry, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) outlines how you must protect patient data. If you are in the financial services industry, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999 (GLBA) requires you to protect non-public personal information. There are many other regulations and industry expectations that may apply to you, and even if there weren't any, you owe it to your customers and clients to protect their data.

What's that got to do with e-mail?

With respect to using e-mail to exchange patient or customer information, all of these rules prohibit such exchange using ordinary e-mail. Period. If you are not using an e-mail product that protects data AND authenticates users, you are at risk of running afoul with government regulations.

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