Security Features of Internet Fax Services
No matter how you spin it, faxing through internet fax services is more secure than your traditional fax machine. A traditional fax machine prints paper faxes that are visible to anyone else that uses that fax machine. With internet fax services, your documents are delivered electronically; therefore they are only seen by the original person that was intended to see them. Along with being a more private transmittal, there are other security features that come along with internet fax services to help protect your documents. Some of those features are:
SSL Encryption – Internet fax services have a built-in Secure Socket Layer, or SSL, that protects the documents you send via the internet. By using an SSL encryption, only you and the person you send your fax to can actually view the document.
VPN – There are some internet fax services that offer an additional security feature known as a Virtual Private Network or VPN. These networks utilize segments of the internet to create a secure tunnel for your transmission.
PGP – Any internet fax service that allows you to view your faxed documents through your email are utilizing a Pretty Good Privacy Encryption or PGP Encryption. This allows the private sending and receiving of emails directly from your inbox.
Passwords – Internet fax services will provide password protected user accounts so that only you can securely access your account. This will prevent any unauthorized users from accessing your fax account and its documents.
Online Storage – With all of your faxes being stored on the web through your internet fax service, internet fax services secure your messages within their secured servers. You can also secure your faxes through the internet fax service website with an encryption program.
Public Key Encryption – Internet fax services will typically cater to businesses or other services that require high-security when it comes to their faxed documents. With a public key encryption, you will use your public key in order to gain access to the server to send and receive documents as well as retrieve any documents stored on the server.
Junk Fax Filters and Blocking Programs – Since we all know about the unsolicited faxes that we receive with our fax machines, internet fax services provide filters to sort out the junk mail. These filters use criteria to automatically filter out the junk mail and send them to your junk mail folder as oppose to your fax inbox. You can also report specific numbers to the blocking program in order to block any further transmissions from that fax number.
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