StarForce Sfletter the Public protected mail service

The StarForce company, the Russian developer of software solutions in the field of protection of electronic information against leaks, copying and illegal distribution, announced in May, 2014 start of own mail Internet service with a possibility of sending the protected letters and investments. The beta of free service will be available to users in June, 2014.

Service is focused on wide audience – using it it will be possible to put in order as text and graphic materials for the personal purposes, and documents on working questions – any information which should not be transferred to the third parties and is used not for designated purpose.

The main functionality of service is available free of charge, such functions as a withdrawal of access to the letter, installation of the timer on viewing, sending from own domain name are provided within paid tariff plans. Is ideal for paid mailings. Under simplicity of the interface serious technologies of protection are, but you do not need to think of them – put a tick and the letter with the document is protected and sent according to the address list. If you the author with a responsible approach to data protection, then to you here.

If to speak about shortcomings of this solution, then for viewing it is required to set the program browser by analogy with PDF. It is for all platforms except Linux.

Protection of documents against copying and editing always imposes restrictions for use. It is important to save balance between convenience, security and cost.

2016: SFLetter.com opens a possibility of sending the protected letters from own domain name

The service of the protected SFLetter.com mail developed by StarForce company announced in April, 2016 start of functionality: now letters and investments in the format protected from copying and transfer can be sent on behalf of any domain. First of all, the new option is expected corporate users whose letters for convenience of business should go from the corporate e-mail address.

The main objective of service of e-mail SFLetter.com is prevention of transfer of confidential letters and investments to the third parties. The sent documents always are in the protected format and have one activation key intended for the addressee. The sender from the personal account can monitor when and from what IP address there were open letters and investments and also to fix attempts of unauthorized access.

"Based on the research Osterman Research more than 20% of employees intend break security policy to carry out working tasks. It occurs because the companies, as a rule, well protecting the perimeter, absolutely ignore situations when the document on business necessity needs to go beyond an enterprise information system. Employees go on it at own risk, understanding, for example, that differently, the important transaction can break, and the company will not get an expected profit", - Natalya Yashenkova, the head of marketing and PR of StarForce company says. – Our solutions are aimed at providing free, but controlled exchange of digital information. The new functionality of SFLetter.com allowing to send the protected letters from domain name of the client provides protection and control of outgoing mail at the minimum finance and time expenditure".

Subscribers of the tariff plan "Business" have an opportunity to exchange letters from own domain name. Also they can withdraw access to already sent letters and determine the period during which information in the message is available to reading. The cost of service is 450 rubles a month.

2015: SFLetter.com included an access mode according to regulations

On August 13, 2015 the StarForce Technologies company announced adding of functionality in service of e-mail SFLetter.com: now the sender can determine time during which the letter will be available to the receiver, to withdraw the right to viewing the sent files in real time.

In addition to the timer and operational prohibition on viewing became available to senders:

• detailed report about parameters,
• detailed report status
• detailed report about the history of access to the sent letters,
• management offlayndostupy
• more convenient navigation on the website.

"Quite often there are situations when important documents need to be sent by e-mail, complying two conditions: it must be done quickly and with a safety guarantee. When sending letters only the receiver from the computer can get access to the protected files through SFLetter.com. At the same time the document it is impossible to print or make Print Screen", ‐ Natalya Yashenkova, the head of marketing and PR of StarForce company noted. ‐ the New functionality allows the sender to configure access to the protected files at discretion, for example, to give a document access for an hour or to quickly prohibit access to earlier sent files if the receiver lost the status of "authorized representative" or the letter was sent by mistake".

The company separated functionality between paid and free accounts of service. The users who selected the tariff plan "Premium" will be able to send files of a different format: PDF, DOC (x), XLS(x), JPEG, RTF, GIF, PNG to increase the box size to 200 Gbytes and to forget about restriction for quantity of investments and addressees.

Free testing of complete functionality of service of the protected e-mail is available to everyone within 14 days.

2014: English version of Sfletter.com

The service of the protected e-mail Sfletter.com started by Protekshen Technology company (StarForce trademark) is available to English-speaking audience from now on. Service is intended for protection of private or corporate correspondence against not authorized use of information – including from transfer to the third parties and also scannings of contents of letters and investments by other mail services.

Sfletter.com allows to protect investments: files in the JPEG and PDF formats (the list of the supported formats will extend), or the letter entirely. Anyone can register an e-mail, and any service of e-mail can be the receiver of the letter. For opening of the protected letter it is required to download the special program browser which is provided free of charge.

"We started Sfletter.com service in Russian about a month ago and are very happy with result – users actively are registered and send the protected letters", - Natalya Yashenkova, the head of marketing and PR of Protekshen Technology company says. – "We connect it with the fact that the need for protection of inviolability of correspondence for the Internet at the moment is especially sharply felt. Therefore we are concentrated on two main objectives: ensuring the maximum availability of service to wide audience and start of additional paid functionality which will allow to make the project commercially successful". The Sfletter.com service is started in the beta testing mode. All services are provided free of charge. Each user receives the box with a capacity of 500 MB with an opportunity to attach in letters files no more than 5 MB. Further emergence of additional paid services is planned.

"Now there are very many services which promise safe delivery of letters", - the founder of service Mikhail Kalinichenko comments. – "Distinctive feature of Sfletter.com is the unique model of ensuring protection: the letters and investments protected by service it is impossible to send, edit, print, make Print Screen, i.e. documents remain protected and after opening and reading. At the same time it is possible to open them only on the addressee's computer. It is possible to compare it with kripteksy, a key to which is not the symbol set, and use of a certain user device".