How does SlingMail work?

How does SlingMail Work?

SlingMail has developed a method for securing data in motion. The basis for all SlingMail products and solutions is our architecture, a platform of security functions that combines rock solid security with the tools that organizations need to maintain control over one of their most valuable resources – information.

By providing a baseline for secure information sharing, SlingMail architecture was designed to protect data by ensuring confidentiality, integrity and non-repudiation.

Confidentiality - SlingMail ensures the intended recipient can examine the message. Dealing with data in motion, privacy and confidentiality can be assured through a process of validation, authorization and encryption.

Integrity - ensures a message has not been tampered while in transit. One of the steps of integrity can be achieved by their own unique password to send and view messages. Another step taken to validate the integrity of an email is the use of our mathematical computation that is uniquely generated at place of origin so not one strain of data is the same.

Encryption - modifies data so that the resulting message can be read only with the aid of additional information – a key that’s obtainable only to the sender and the intended target. SlingMail supports four types of encryption the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), 3DES encryption algorithms in all of its encryption software, S/MINE (Secure/Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) and our unique keys generator. The key server generates a new random key, stores it and returns a copy to the sending software to use for encryption. When recipient receives an encrypted email, the key server is contacted to request the key. If recipient is authorized to view the intended email, the key is retrieved and the message decrypted.

All of these steps ensure that a message actually came from the indicated sender and not from an imposter. The benefit is an assured level of security unparalleled in the industry.