sparkeh Posted May 18, 2012 Posted May 18, 2012 Does anyone else have trouble sending encrypted documents via embc mail? For me is gets quarantined and I have to manually release it. Surely sending sensitive data in encrypted form is the right thing to do?!
Jobos Posted May 18, 2012 Posted May 18, 2012 We had problem with Teacher 2 Parents last week and had to send them our database which was encrypted. Of course the emails got quarantined so I was releasing them at 4:30pm on a Friday afternoon
JonThompson Posted May 18, 2012 Posted May 18, 2012 We have the same issue. Anything encrypted, or anything it 'thinks' is encrypted gets blocked and we have to manually release it. Talk about being a pain.
maark Posted May 18, 2012 Posted May 18, 2012 have had same problem tried zipping it up but still the same
sparkeh Posted May 18, 2012 Author Posted May 18, 2012 Thanks, glad its not just me. Perhaps time to put a call in... *sigh*
JonThompson Posted May 18, 2012 Posted May 18, 2012 Thanks, glad its not just me. Perhaps time to put a call in... *sigh* If you do find out why, can you let us know please? Thanks.
synaesthesia Posted May 18, 2012 Posted May 18, 2012 Certainly an issue across the board - catch 22 as it's the best way to make sure someone receives nasties via email too. We haven't bothered looking into it due to moving away from EMBC but I would imagine they'd be happy to set up a whitelist for you
sparkeh Posted May 18, 2012 Author Posted May 18, 2012 Support sent me a manual today with a section on how to configure this for ourselves. I'll take a look and report back
GrumbleDook Posted May 19, 2012 Posted May 19, 2012 As @synaesthesia it is catch 22. To virus scan emails you need to get into zipped files. If you can't then you either have to say you completely trust the inbound source or have someone verify that the outbound source is always 100% patched and with up-to-date AV with no chance of being hit by day zero exploits. The simplest and easiest thing is to quarantine the questionable file so that someone with authority and trustworthy access at the school goes and releases it. Some LAs will authorise the setting up a rule to 'trust' emails coming from and going to the LA but from chatting with a few of our schools that has not been something that is particularly popular ... for some reason there are schools that don't trust emails from *anyone* ... and it has been frustrating when our HR and Pay teams are sending out encrypted files (via AVCO) and asking for them to be emailed back ... only for them to be blocked by EMBC (and rightly so). With the move to MM though, we had a good number of false positives whilst it was being tweaked and so we did agree to that rule bing put in place to allow emails to go back and forth safely between NCC and schools ... if schools were not taking on contracts themselves in a few months time I would have removed the rule as it is not a good thing to have ... IMHO ... not when we have a fair few schools where we cannot be sure that patching is taking place on a regular basis and there is little or no audit of the update of AV. Then again ... that is why schools can take control of their own rulesets to deal with this how they want.
cvl4 Posted May 28, 2012 Posted May 28, 2012 Sparkeh Hope you got it sorted since contacting support? I have used Mail Marshal to successfully create rules to get around this problem for regular senders / receivers of encrypted documents so I know it is possible.
sparkeh Posted May 28, 2012 Author Posted May 28, 2012 Sparkeh Hope you got it sorted since contacting support? I have used Mail Marshal to successfully create rules to get around this problem for regular senders / receivers of encrypted documents so I know it is possible. I have the instructions to fix this, just need a spare 5 mins to actually do it :S
JonThompson Posted May 28, 2012 Posted May 28, 2012 I have the instructions to fix this, just need a spare 5 mins to actually do it :S Can I have a copy please? Or are they specific to your site only?
sparkeh Posted May 28, 2012 Author Posted May 28, 2012 Can I have a copy please? Or are they specific to your site only? Sure! They are generic! Will PM you. 1
GrumbleDook Posted May 28, 2012 Posted May 28, 2012 Without sounding like a party pooper ... Rather than emailing it around it would be a good idea to either raise a support call to get a copy (that way EMBC, LAs and Capita know what sort of info people want / need) or ... you could go grab it from the technical library? http://www.embc.uk.com/library/default.aspx?RootFolder=%2flibrary%2fDocuments%2f5%29%20Technical%20Library&FolderCTID=0x0120002EDA9F600A61BE4692BFF81EA5AFC1C2&View=%7bAA05090E%2dA801%2d4580%2d8A91%2d7C9CFAB216AF%7d
sparkeh Posted May 29, 2012 Author Posted May 29, 2012 Any chance of a copy as well please? Sure! (I'm not a party pooper )
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