Send It Safely: KeepYouSafe.com Launches Free Secure File Transfer Service.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- KeepYouSafe.com (www.keepyousafe.com), a Web-based personal information security company, today announced the beta launch of a free service which enables consumers and businesses to easily send and receive sensitive files and protect those files with one of the strongest encryption technologies available. "E-mail is about as private and safe as sending a postcard," said Eric Wolbrom, COO and co-founder of KeepYouSafe.com. "With KeepYouSafe.com's Secure File Transfer, we're making it easy to send and receive files securely, to anyone anywhere, with no need for special software beyond a web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. ." The spreadsheets, presentations, documents and images attached to emails often contain highly sensitive Adj. 1. highly sensitive - readily affected by various agents; "a highly sensitive explosive is easily exploded by a shock"; "a sensitive colloid is readily coagulated" information. People assume that e-mail is private but security experts agree that it's not a good idea to send confidential data unprotected via email. Messages can be intercepted by and read while in transit, or stored for months or longer on Internet Service Providers' servers. The only way to truly protect sensitive information transmitted by e-mail is to encrypt it. But encryption applications can be difficult to use, and both sender and recipient typically need to use the same application to successfully decode the protected files. "As with our free Online Safe Deposit Boxes A safe deposit box (sometimes incorrectly called a safety deposit box) is a type of safe usually located in groups inside a bank vault or in the back of a bank or post office. , we wanted to make strong encryption An encryption method that uses a very large number as its cryptographic key. The larger the key, the longer it takes to unlawfully break the code. Today, 256 bits is considered strong encryption. As computers become faster, the length of the key must be increased. available to users who may not have the technical know-how or the desire to manually encrypt and decrypt To convert secretly coded data (encrypted data) back into its original form. Contrast with encrypt. See plaintext and cryptography. messages," said Wolbrom. "KeepYouSafe.com is focused on offering services that make it easy for people to use the best security technologies to protect their personal information." Documents stored on KeepYouSafe.com's servers are protected using military-grade encryption (256-bit AES) - one of the highest levels of encryption available. It would take 149 trillion years to crack a 128-bit encryption key, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. recent studies, so you can only imagine how long it would take to crack a 256-bit key. About KeepYouSafe.com KeepYouSafe.com provides Online Safe Deposit Boxes(SM) and other services to individuals and businesses who wish to securely store important records and other information and be able to access those stored records from anywhere, at any time, via the internet. The personal information stored in an Online Safe Deposit Box is available to the box's owners only, unless individual box owners choose to grant access to family members and trusted friends. Each box's contents are protected by the same strong encryption and other security technologies used by the U.S. military to secure top secret data. The KeepYouSafe Online Safe Deposit Box service is provided by Information Survival, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . The service was designed and developed by a team of certified security professionals with decades of deep experience in keeping critical data safe and secure. Information Survival LLC is a privately held security company based in New York. |
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