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S/MIME technology offers a comprehensive email security solution that addresses each of these points—and in an industry where personal details, health care data, and insurance and payment information must regularly be transmitted via email, it isn’t hard to see why these safeguards are important. By deploying email certificates across the organization, S/MIME provides exactly the safeguards stipulated by HIPAA in a cost-effective and easy-to-use package.

Our first S/MIME post provided a broad overview of the challenges that organizations face when it comes to email security, as well as an introduction to S/MIME technology that can be used to combat many of those vulnerabilities. In this post, we get more specific and talk about how S/MIME can be used to combat “spear phishing” attacks.

The first in a continuing blog series, this post begins to explore specific ways that businesses and organizations can deploy S/MIME technology, including as a method of defense against spear phishing and as a way to remain compliant with information security regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA. As more and more organizations adopt this important technology, understanding its many applications will help provide a fuller picture of S/MIME’s value.

When I look back on 2018, a simple statement comes to mind: innovation is everything. It was a breakthrough year for Sectigo — a year in which we achieved record growth while transforming the organization to become the global leader in digital identity and web security solutions. But innovation is not everything…unless you deliver on your vision; in 2018 that is exactly what we did. Here are some of our most notable accomplishments for 2018.

We have seen the first major fine hit a company for failing to meet GDPR data privacy requirements in Europe, and it’s a doozy. French data regulator CNIL has fined Google 50 million euros for its advertising personalization practices.

On January 14, 2019, we started the next planned stage of our brand transition from Comodo CA to Sectigo, issuing new customer certificates from Sectigo-branded issuing CAs under our widely trusted USERTrust root CAs.

It’s been almost a month since the US Government shut down on December 22, 2018, and while some effects of this record-breaking shutdown are obvious, others are flying under the radar — including the increased vulnerability to cybercrime faced by millions of Americans.