Better Online Security? Think, “Portals,” “Vaults,” & “Silos”

New Document Distribution Model:  “Come & Get It”

“Ransomware Attack Raises Concerns Over Future Assaults”

–Headline, The NYT (June 28, 2017).

Both professionally (as a Realtor) and as an investor (401k, etc.), it’s apparent to me how big organizations intend to safeguard valuable information from increasingly aggressive and sophisticated hackers.

Step #1:  lock it up in a very secure (online) vault.**

Step #2:  tightly control access.

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So, forget about emailing anything as an attachment anymore:  way too insecure.

Cyber-thieves can readily intercept such communications, booby-trap them (via bad links and attachments), or even mimic them (the definition of “phishing”).

Instead, legitimate customers will be notified via email or even text that a document is ready for them to view or retrieve online.

To access it, they must then input a password and other identifying info that are much more difficult to hack.

**Customers of Edina Title now access closing documents by logging onto the company’s “portal.”



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