With the use of e-mail by insurance agents and brokers to transact routine business proliferating, tech security experts warn that a growing body of regulation, state law and litigation concerns will require greater attention to encryption and storage of communications.
The Agents Council for Technology, a technology association of agents, vendors and carriers, recently hosted two Web seminars dealing with the subject of how to make e-mail secure using Transport Layer Security (TLS).
Hosted by ACT Executive Director Jeff Yates, and available at the Web site of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (www.iiaba.net) under ACT, the seminars review why agents need to encrypt e-mail and how they can go about doing it using TLS.
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