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Where do computer hackers hone their skills? Universities!

How does the CIO enable the existing email system to securely transmit highly confidential correspondence and data amongst university staff? This requirement is especially desirable for the executives who demand easy-to-use security of electronic messages.

The IT organization needed a simple way for college executives to not only secure their communications, but to ensure the parties they were communicating with is authentic. The administration did not want someone spoofing a message to one of the college vice presidents on a sensitive matter.

The challenge by this major university is the same as issues faced everywhere: E-mail is the most commonly accepted medium to communicate internally and externally by most members of the organization and is the least secure.

Solution
When presented with the opportunity to install a non-obtrusive, cost effective means of securing administrative communications (email, attachments, etc.), the university jumped at the chance.

Nomad Secure Access's unique, yet simplistic approach to application independent e-mail security can digitally sign and securely deliver messages and attachments sent from one type of email application to a different type of email system. For example, an email sent from Eudora to Outlook or iMAP can be secured from point to point with our solution that verifies and validates identities of sender and recipient. At the same time, encrypting all data transmission without building a time consuming and costly security system.

"By using the existing infrastructure and applications that our users have been trained on and have widely accepted, enhancing security with this concept makes perfect sense" said the CIO.

"Amongst various benefits of this solution we liked the idea of starting on a small scale and expanding the scope of the implementation as additional members or applications require the verification and validation of true identity. The product architecture concept is simple and non-intrusive to existing business applications; therefore our risk is reduced to the minimum."