News - New business requirements for S.E.E. Mail

New business requirements for S.E.E. Mail

September 2002

From 2 December 2002, new business requirements for S.E.E. Mail participants come into force. The new version of S.E.E. Mail will have

• Greater automation of routine certificate management tasks, such as retrieval of replacement certificates and linking by new members.
• Improved fail-safe certificate processing to cater for invalid certificates, expired certificates and faulty implementations.
• Improved assurance of on-going security, by re-certification of each participating agency each month using SMARTS (S.E.E. Mail Automated Reference Test Server).
• Increased cost-effectiveness by defining how an individual participating agency can establish an uncertified encrypted link (XSEEMAIL) to their business partner (e.g. bank, law firm, etc).

Any agency joining S.E.E. Mail from 2 December 2002 will be required to comply with S.E.E. Mail Business Requirements v2.

Agencies that are already using S.E.E. Mail on 1 December 2002 must be site certified to a S.E.E. Mail v2 compliant version by 1 August 2003. S.E.E. Mail vendors and agencies that don’t comply with the new business requirements by 1 August 2002 will not be able to participate.

S.E.E. Mail participants should also note that as of 28 August 2002, MailMarshall Secure and Content Technologies SecretSweeper are both provisionally endorsed for the protection of RESTRICTED, SENSITIVE and IN CONFIDENCE information transferred across the New Zealand portion of the Internet.