Secure E-mail Project

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http://www.dotmed.com/news/story/12271/
A news article by Dot Med News

The article is about a study showing whether or not doctors use e-mail. According to the data, doctors use e-mail to contact patients, peers, businesses associates and insurers.

Doctors then said they were more likely to use encrypted email in contacting patients than in contacting medical or business colleagues, while they were least likely to use encrypted email in communicating with insurers.

Half the doctors in the study indicated they were interested in having encrypted e-mail capability integrated with health records software. It was then noted in the article that MaxMD, a provider of secure web services, already supplies this technology to eCast and other software firms.

All in all, I found the secure e-mail project to be difficult at first because I couldn't get things to work correctly, but once I did everything was a breeze. Now I'm interested in learning more about secure e-mail as I had never heard of it before this project. And if doctors are doing it, then it might be important for whatever business environment I find myself in the future.

Week 14: Muddy

According to Webopedia, a thin client is a client in a client/server application that is designed to be especially small so that the bulk of the data processing occurs on the server.

Although the term thin client usually refers to software, it is increasingly used for computers, such as network computers and Net PCs, that are designed to serve as the clients for client/server architectures. A thin client is a network computer without a hard disk drive, whereas a thick client includes a disk drive.

Essentially, thin client computing is a shift backward toward how older computers worked. A thin client is a display-only terminal with no hard drive as all the applications come from the server. There are many benefits to using this type of device, including:

1. Lower cost of ownership and maintenance
2. Better reliability
3. Better Security
4. Remote access to all applications and data with high performance
5. Simplified end user experience

For more information on thin client computing, visit Thin Client Computing Tech Info to learn more.

Also learn more about thin client computing and virtualization at Moderro Technologies.

Week 13: Clear

You need to be very careful when browsing the Internet so that you don't wind up with a virus on your computer. One very easy place to get a virus happens to be a very popular Web site - Facebook.

With millions of users on this social networking site, it has become a really easy target for hackers worldwide. There have been numerous instances where people’s profiles have been hacked and their Facebook profile information has been used against them to access their private and confidential data, such as their bank accounts.

Have you received strange messages from a friend, asking you about irrelevant questions with links embedded in it? If you have, be careful not to ever click on the link as it is might likely someone who has hacked your friend's profile and is trying to spread viruses through it.

For more information on viruses and Facebook, check out how Facebook can turn your computer into a zombie and how e-mails from Facebook can contain viruses as well.

Week 12: Clear

Going into learning about system development without a clue to what it was led me to believe it would be extremely difficult to understand it. Luckily I was wrong as it turns out to be just a very complicated way to get a task done for better organization and work efficiency.

IN a business, if something needs to get changed so as to make better use to time, money and labor, then an analysis must be made of what the current process is, what bugs there are in that system, how to fix those bugs and what the final outcome would be like.

Going through the whole system development cycle is quite complicated with all the back-grounding and paperwork that needs to get done, but it is a long road to making things more efficient.

Organization is definitely a plus and is necessary for a business to make full use of all its assets. If a part of the way the business works is becoming outdated or is found to not be running correctly, a change is needed and the system development cycle will work fine because the process is so long and complicated that changes will occur (as long as their are funds to continue the process and make the changes).

While I think it is still confusing when looking at all the paperwork and legal stuff, when looking at it in its most simplest form, the system development cycle is there to help facilitate changes in any business environment.

System Development Cycle