So what is the process that occurs when you actually secure documents and media using CertiVox Secure Content Apps? Firstly the service is really two parts:
• Web based control and auditing
• Client based protection
Once you have signed up for the CertiVox service, you can download the client. This performs the actual content app protection and packaging process locally on your machine. This is so that your content never leaves your machine or your control during the critical protection / encryption process. When you are ready to protect and have selected your target, the web service records the settings you have chosen and creates a special instruction to send to the client telling it what to do and who the recipients are.
These specially encrypted and single use parameters instruct the clients how to proceed and begin the protection process. Once complete the audit information is confirmed, and the secure content app is ready for distribution. The content app can be distributed many ways including physical media, email or a file storage location such as Amazon S3.
Going on beyond the protection process takes us to the CertiVox Network, a secure XMPP based membership system to help certify and deliver the access and authorisation information as well as to notify the recipient of the location of the secure content app. We’ll look at the Certivox Network in more detail in a future blog.
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