Encrypting Sensitive Patient Data with Retarus E-Mail Encryption

Long-term care planning, complaint management, or current information about the progression of a disease – for senior care facilities and nursing homes active in the healthcare industry, daily communication with family members is essential. The preferred channel of communication these days is email. But installing complex end-to-end encryption is often much too involved for private users. And senior care facilities and nursing homes are ofte not in the position to provide IT support for end users either-

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Security Alert: One in six emails contains a virus

After Locky, here comes KePanger, PowerWare and Petya: Retarus is currently observing a significantly higher incidence of the crypto trojan Locky, as well as new variations. Whilst in February only around 3% of all incoming emails were infected, the number of messages filtered in March due to viruses had already risen to 17%. This corresponds to a fivefold rise in comparison with the previous month and can be explained primarily by the large increase in ransomware.

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