Secure Email Project

For this project we were required to use Thunderbird to send a secure email and an encrypted email. The following are the screen shots of my professors return email for both the secure and encrypted email.

I found an article about how the Boston Medical Center chose Voltage Security to increase their level of security for emails. Here is a link to the article. To summarize, the article explains how the busy hospital staff would need a secure email system so that no sensitive information could leave and violate any government mandates. Also it would need to be simple and not add any unnecessary steps to the hectic days of the staff. Brad Blake, the director of  the IT department,  chose Voltage Security SecureMail  because it was customizable, little training needed, no support desk, and was simple enough for all the staff. The program scans outgoing messages for keywords like MRN(medical record number) or SSN(social security number) and if any keywords are found it encrypts the message automatically. Another reason Blake chose this program was that he could make emails received and sent on the hospital's Blackberry to make them just as secure as if they were connected to a hospital computer. After the program was rolled out, Blake saw very few problems and most people barely noticed the change which made the change a great success.