The Idiot´s Guide to Email Security

June 2, 2011 - PRLog -- When a message, a photo, a text file or a document ends up with a person who should not have received it, then something went obviously wrong …

These days, most individuals do have an account with Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo: As long as a Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo account is used for messages which are neither private nor confidential, that’s perfectly fine. Users just have to bear in mind that free email providers only offer an unsecure and unencrypted service.

With Hotmail, Gmail and Yahoo messages and attachments will not be protected, can be hacked any time and the sender has no what-so-ever control what the recipient will eventually do with a mail: The sender does not know if or when the recipient has actually received the message or whether the recipient has forwarded the message to a third person or not. – By pressing the Send button, the sender looses any control over the message, its content and attachments.

It is evident that such a service is insufficient for any sort of confidential or private message: Assume that you send a personal photo with a private message to a recipient. You certainly do not want this message to end up with a third person you don’t know and who should never have received that message.

Only a provider of a secure, encrypted mail and document messaging service will guarantee you that messages are fully protected against hacks, leaks or any other unauthorized interference. Such providers do exist, however, they are expensive and inconvenient to use ….. except one: Opolis Secure Mail (http://www.opolis.eu).

Opolis is the world´s first secure mail and document messaging provider, offering its services for free: With Opolis all messages are sent secure and encrypted, all the way from the sender to the recipient. Besides, Opolis allows encrypted filing of documents, entire folders or photos.

The Opolis security concept is broader than just the point-to-point encryption of mails and messages: With Opolis a sender decides whether the recipient is allowed to forward, copy or print a message – or not. In addition, a sender can monitor and track all sent messages: Therefore, if forwarding were allowed, then the sender can check when and to whom a message was forwarded and how it was further processed.

Of course, all attachments to Opolis messages are also fully encrypted. For example, a sender of an Opolis mail may prevent a photo attachment to be forwarded or printed: Consequently, such a photo can only be seen by the authorized recipient, but nobody else will have access or can get hold of to it. In that respect, privacy is fully protected.

Opolis was launched to provide a fully integrated high-security email and messaging service solution. For a user, Opolis seems to function like any other free webmail, such as Hotmail, Gmail or Yahoo. However, Opolis combines all security features and the entire encryption process user-friendly in a single service. And, Opolis operates from any host PC all over the world.

The free service merely requires that both, the sender and the recipient are Opolis users. The registration process takes approximately 5 minutes.


About Opolis

Opolis Secure Mail is dedicated to provide for free the most user-friendly high-security Email and document messaging service. The Opolis website is http://www.opolis.eu. Opolis also offers co-branded solutions for internet and Email communication as well as document messaging. Opolis has been developed since 2005, whereby numerous security technologies were combined in one single service.

"Opolis is a response to growing concerns in regards to Email security:  First, sending an ordinary Email is no more secure than sending a postcard. And then, the sender of an ordinary Email never really knows what the recipient has actually done with it or whether the message was even misused", he says. - Mr Forstner, a veteran telecoms entrepreneur, should know: When floating his telecoms company Cybertron in 1997, he saw confidential Emails ending up with individuals who should never have received them.

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Opolis Secure Mail /http://www.opolis.eu) is a high-security E-Mail and document messaging service. Encrypted mails are sent for free. The sender decides what the recipient of a mail is allowed to do with it (copy, print, forward).