e-mail attachments and security

[john at johnfitz.org (John Fitzpatrick)]

What about a cloud service like yousendit? They support ssl, file level
passwords, file expiration, etc. Not sure if they are HIPAA compliant (I'm
guessing not).



On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Bert Van Kets <mailing at vankets.com> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I got a pretty interesting question from my brother yesterday. He's a
> medical doctor in the UK and he needs to send reports to other doctors
> by e-mail regularly. The reports are in MS Word format. These doctors
> are in different locations and not connected to a common organization
> (hospital or company).
> At the moment he uses the MSWord password protection to try to keep the
> sensitive data away from prying eyes. We all know how secure that method
> is (not!).
> I told hem he'd better use some other system that guarantees a bit more
> protection but the problem is he can not ask of the people who receive
> the reports to install extra software (like PGP or GPG encryption). The
> security may not get in the way of the usability. Asking the receivers
> to install extra software and configuring it is not an option. These are
> not IT guys and don't even know how to spell GPG, let alone install it.
> Passing a password over by telephone is the maximum these guys are
> willing to go. 8-O
>
> Do you guys have some ideas on what could be a better solution for this
> "three legged stool" problem?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bert
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