Tiscali: Email Security

Read on for tips on safeguarding your email against snoopers by encrypting it. Email is like a postcard. Anyone with the inclination or the tools to do so can read it. Find out how and why, you should protect your email.

Email encryption software

What is email encryption and why do you need it? In simple terms email encryption locks and scrambles your message so that no one can read it whilst it is in transit. Email is like a postcard. Anyone with the inclination or the tools to do so, can read it. What could this mean for you? It could mean data loss, identity theft or even worse.

SecureMail puts your email into a "tamper proof" envelope. Credit card numbers, banking information or confidential documents like contracts or test results, anything you want to keep private, can now be kept private. With SecureMail, you simply sign and lock your message digitally. It's as easy as pressing "Secure". There's no need to change your email address or change the way you send email now.

Tiscali Secure Mail gives you the confidence that only you and your intended recipients are able to read your email, and that you know that the sender is not pretending to be someone else. It is a value added service that gives you the ability to send email with the confidence that the email is securely encrypted and that only the person that you addressed the email to can unlock it.

Recipients benefit because the identity of the sender is also guaranteed. With Tiscali Secure Mail, everyone with an email address can send and receive encrypted digitally signed emails, without knowing the details of how it is done.

Anyone can sign up: you do not need to be a Tiscali customer to subscribe and can use your existing email address (you@youraddress.com)

Confirm sender ID: digital signatures guarantee the identity of the sender

Messages are encrypted: military grade security is used to seal your email

Send to anyone: you can send Tiscali Secure Mail to anyone, whether or not they are also a subscriber

Click to send: before sending, just click on the new SECURE button and the email will be encrypted before it is sent from your computer

Click to open: click on a secure mail in your email box and enter your password to open it

Managing identities: you do not have to worry about exchanging identities with anyone, just address the email and we do the rest

Truly Secure: trusted standards - public key infrastructure (PKI), digital certificates (X.509), Secure / Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (S/MIME)

Economical: one monthly fee lets you send unlimited Tiscali Secure Mail

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