Glossary

auto­mat­ic encryp­tion   A secure email trans­mis­sion process that auto­mat­i­cal­ly encrypts email from your email pro­gram to your email serv­er and may extend all the way to the recipient’s email serv­er.

back­end   A sub­or­di­nate pro­gram, not direct­ly accessed by the user, that per­forms a spe­cial­ized func­tion for the main sys­tem.

closed sys­tem   A pri­vate net­work that enables email only between those on the net­work and not with the pub­lic.

cloud   Remote stor­age on the inter­net used to man­age and process data in place of per­son­al com­put­ers.

com­put­ing device   A desk­top, lap­top, tablet, or smart phone.

con   To swin­dle some­one by first win­ning their con­fi­dence.

data min­ing   Exam­in­ing data­bas­es for the pur­pose of gen­er­at­ing new infor­ma­tion.

device   See com­put­ing device.

encryp­tion   The process of con­vert­ing infor­ma­tion into an unread­able code.

fatal flaws   The flaws in the auto­mat­ic encryp­tion sys­tem as out­lined in Chap­ter 5.

high val­ue   Email of con­sid­er­able impor­tance, such as an email mes­sage regard­ing a large asset.

hijack   The unau­tho­rized act of tak­ing over an email account through dig­i­tal hack­ing, social engi­neer­ing, or oth­er means and using it for unau­tho­rized pur­pos­es, typ­i­cal­ly crim­i­nal.

HIPAA   Health Insur­ance Porta­bil­i­ty and Account­abil­i­ty Act of 1996, leg­is­la­tion that requires pri­va­cy for med­ical records.

IT   Infor­ma­tion tech­nol­o­gy, a term for the field of dig­i­tal tech­nol­o­gy as used by net­works.

MB   Megabytes, the mea­sure of the size of a dig­i­tal file.

Mes­sage-Lev­el encryp­tion   An RMail encryp­tion process that encrypts email from your email pro­gram to the recipient’s email pro­gram, the entire email path.

PDF   Portable Doc­u­ment For­mat (Adobe), a dig­i­tal file for­mat that looks like a print­ed doc­u­ment.

phish­ing   The fraud­u­lent prac­tice of send­ing email pur­port­ing to be from a rep­utable source in order to induce peo­ple to reveal infor­ma­tion or take cer­tain action.

plu­g­in   Add-in pro­gram­ming for cer­tain email pro­grams to pro­vide cer­tain ser­vices.

RMail app   An app for the iPad that pro­vides access to RMail ser­vices.

serv­er   A pro­gram that man­ages access to a dig­i­tal resource or ser­vice in a net­work.

snail­mail   Mail sent through the postal sys­tem.

SSL   Secure Sock­ets Lay­er, an encryp­tion pro­to­col for send­ing data via the inter­net.

tel­com   Tele­phone com­pa­ny, such as AT&T.

TLS   Trans­port Lay­er Secu­ri­ty, an encryp­tion pro­to­col for trans­mit­ting data over the inter­net.

URL   The unique inter­net address of a web­page.

Wi-Fi   A trans­mis­sion pro­to­col for short range radio trans­mis­sion for access to a local area net­work.

your mail serv­er   Your email ser­vice provider’s email serv­er (unless you oper­ate your own email serv­er).