GROUP Business Software - Newsletter January 2010

Newsletter January 2010

1. Focus on data protection: Your emails and customer data are secure with iQ.Suite
2. Get the latest: The GROUP RSS Feed
3. GROUP training courses in January and February
4. iQ.Suite tips & tricks for Lotus Domino: Automatic encryption of outgoing emails with S/MIME
5. Exchange/SMTP Corner: Exporting imported S/MIME certificates automatically into a directory

1. Focus on data protection: Your emails and customer data are secure with iQ.Suite

The list of companies hit by data scandals is getting longer by the day and includes increasing numbers of well-known suppliers and service providers. Recent events have not only worried consumers, but also damaged confidence in the affected companies. Legislators are responding ever more rigorously and in many countries, stricter laws have been brought into force and fines massively increased. For example, an amendment to the law governing data protection in Germany was enacted on 1 September 2009.

Companies are frequently unaware of how confidential data leaves their premises. Email is the main culprit, because outgoing email communication is likely to be neglected by IT security measures. This is where iQ.Suite steps in with a powerful set of rules and closes unwanted gaps in security. First of all, iQ.Suite Wall supports the classification of email content. Confidential data can be stopped before it is sent or, where the system interacts with iQ.Suite Smart, examined under the four-eyes principle. iQ.Suite Crypt ensures the emails are secure when they are sent, by encrypting and signing them. Even recipients without their own encryption solution can read and answer confidential emails thanks to iQ.Suite WebCrypt.

As you can see, iQ.Suite is a solution for every aspect of email security - and there is no need for any user interaction. Take a look at the numerous options our solution offers and contact us at sales@group-technologies.com.

2. Get the latest: The GROUP RSS Feed

Always up-to-date: You will always be fully informed with the RSS service from GROUP Technologies. Product news, event announcements or press releases - you can subscribe to this service now. It's quick, uncomplicated and free.

You no longer need to undertake time-consuming searches for the latest developments in email technology. Once you have subscribed to the RSS service from GROUP, you will receive automatic news updates at regular intervals. As soon as new reports and information become available, you can display them in your RSS reader or on the GROUP Technologies website. You decide which reports you need to know more about.

See our new offer for yourself straight away. You can subscribe directly to our RSS feed on our homepage - select "RSS" in the top menu. Alternatively, select the orange RSS symbol .

3. GROUP training courses in January and February

Make 2010 a year to remember and get to know the astonishing variety of options offered by our iQ.Suite solutions even better. This year again we are offering you practical training courses to extend and enhance your knowledge. For us this means: Our users come first.

Take a look for yourself. Here is our current range of training courses:

Lotus Notes Domino trainings for customers and partners:

February 2010: iQ.Suite Watchdog
February 2010: iQ.Suite Wall intensive

Microsoft Exchange/SMTP trainings for customers and partners:

January 2010: Data loss prevention with iQ.Suite

You can register for our training courses in a training section, which also contains details about each trainings.

We look forward to seeing you there.

4. iQ.Suite tips & tricks for Lotus Domino: Automatic encryption of outgoing emails with S/MIME

Any email and any attachment can be read or manipulated on the way to its recipient. Sensitive data which must be protected from access by third parties should therefore be encrypted automatically.

That means the sender and recipient need compatible keys: On the one hand, the sender has the public certificate for encrypting the outgoing email; on the other, the recipient can only decrypt the message with the correct private certificate.

We show you here how you can automatically use the public certificates that you already own to send sensitive data.

5. Exchange/SMTP Corner: Exporting imported S/MIME certificates automatically into a directory

The certificate manager is a cost-free function of iQ.Suite and allows you to distribute certificates and certificate revocation lists simply. One of the uses of the certificate manager is to exchange certificates via import or export between the iQ.Suite and the local file system.

Read here how to configure this function easily and which particular aspects you need to observe.