beancole Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 Anyone use secure email? We have an NHS department nurses physios etc. as were a special needs school for PMLD. So teachers often need to send sensitive information. We have a single council school email that uses entrust on a council secure email system. I'm just provisionally looking into how we make our emails secure enough to send sensitive info?
pow Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 My point with this is it is only as secure as the endpoint. If you are happy you're server is secure, whenever you use these secure email services they mainly use HTTPS to deliver the content to the end user, which is no more or less secure than the webmail/exchange server they were delivered to in the first place!
Michael Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 E-mail never is or will be entirely secure. Most providers - such as O365 for example, implement security at the end point, as well as e-mail travelling to and from their mail servers. As for security to the recipients mail server, it very much is a mixed bag. Two form authentication is one solution, but also the likes of O365 OneDrive - being able to host/share files by inviting the user to download it from your portal securely.
Mr_Jiminy Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 It always makes me chuckle when I read about securing email, GCSX and all that... The email is only ever as safe as the sender/ receiver at either end makes it.
Marshall_IT Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 What you want is to make sure that the email is encrypted enroute. You can complete this with Office 365, but you need to license it. If you re in education then you'll need to buy an E3 license for each staff member you want to be able to send encrypted emails. If you are a business then you can buy Azure rights management license separately. I've wrote a blog post on here explaining how to implement encryption using Office 365. Office 365 E-mail Encryption - Blogs - EduGeek.net 1
CyberNerd Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 There is also the Google Apps Message Encryption (GAME) service, which is also a paid add-on: https://support.google.com/a/answer/6105277?hl=en 1
Edu-IT Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 (edited) What you want is to make sure that the email is encrypted enroute. You can complete this with Office 365, but you need to license it. If you re in education then you'll need to buy an E3 license for each staff member you want to be able to send encrypted emails. If you are a business then you can buy Azure rights management license separately. I've wrote a blog post on here explaining how to implement encryption using Office 365. Office 365 E-mail Encryption - Blogs - EduGeek.net This is now free for Education. https://blogs.office.com/2015/09/02/new-school-year-brings-new-security-features-to-office-365-education/ Edited October 8, 2015 by Edu-IT
Marshall_IT Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 This is now free for Education. https://blogs.office.com/2015/09/02/new-school-year-brings-new-security-features-to-office-365-education/ Even better! I'll update the blog post.
MatthewL Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 From when I used to work in the NHS (3 years ago) the only email domains on the secure systems are: .cjsm.net (Criminal and Justice) .gcsx.gov.uk (Local Government/Social Services) .gse.gov.uk (Central Government) .gsi.gov.uk (Central Government including Department of Health) .gsx.gov.uk (Central Government) .hscic.gov.uk (The Health and Social Care Information Centre) .mod.uk (Military) .nhs.net (NHSmail) .pnn.police.uk (Police) .scn.gov.uk (Criminal and Justice) Local authority's may be localauthority.gcsx.gov.uk, not NHS ones that are .nhs.uk are not secure only nhs.net. The other way to pass secure information was to use something like 7Zip and secure with a password which is then passed by another means.
FN-GM Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 We use Office 365 mail encryption. Its free for schools now! Plus Office 365 is on the DFE approved list. Thanks
ful56_uk Posted October 8, 2015 Posted October 8, 2015 We use Office 365 mail encryption. Its free for schools now! Plus Office 365 is on the DFE approved list. Thanks So you don't need to buy rights management anymore ?
FN-GM Posted October 9, 2015 Posted October 9, 2015 So you don't need to buy rights management anymore ? Nope, annoying as I purchased it a few months previous. Its just built in with the revised education licences. 1
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