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Keeping Personal And Professional Information Confidential In A 'Not So Private' World
Keeping Personal And Professional Information Confidential In A 'Not So Private' World by Rebekah Iliff
SenditCertified is excited to introduce the SenditCertified ePackage with patent-pending fingerprint authentication technology. This electronic package, which includes email, voice, and file upload capabilities, is delivered using an internet-based secure global network ensuring secure communications and 100% confidentiality for both sender and receiver.
Steven Pfrenzinger, Co-Founder and CEO of SenditCertified, provides copious experience and expertise in order to insure the success of his many entrepreneurial endeavors.
During his illustrious 35 year career, Steven has been an inventor, systems architect, project manager, independent researcher and industry analyst, author of dozens of feature articles for major IT publications, past Computerworld “best article” winner, featured speaker at national conferences, investor and advisor to venture capital firms, and executive coach. He generously took a few moments to expound on SenditCertified and what keeps him inspired.
AB: What drives your passion for technology?
SP: I’ve always loved technology. I had a knack for it from the start. I was always taking things apart and putting them back together.
The attraction of technology is also about productivity and doing lots of things automatically rather than manually, and faster too. I also like to use technology to right wrongs and catch bad guys. That is very interesting to me and has some connection to SenditCertified.
The anonymity of people on the Internet has always bothered me. It seems you never really know who you are interacting with and what their true intentions are. Using technology to verify identity and stopping the bad guys (hackers, spammers, identity thieves) is very motivating to me.
AB: How did the SenditCertified concept come about?
SP: Stephen Errico, my partner, had this idea a few years ago to use biometrics to insure identity of users on the internet. He pointed out that anonymity was a key element in the early design of the internet, but that it has come with some unintended consequences (e.g., malware, hackers, spammers, and identity thieves all hiding behind that anonymity).
We both agreed that biometrics was a solution and we identified secure electronic delivery as the first target market for our fingerprint technology. As a result, the ePackage was born as an alternative to the many vulnerabilities of standard email and the cost and delays of overnight delivery and courier services.
AB: How does SenditCertified work?
SenditCertified does three things to provide private communications services to Internet users. First, it delivers (transmits) encrypted electronic messages and files, including very large files, from one person to another through a secure pathway over the internet. Second, it provides a variety of ways to make sure that the sender and receiver are who they say they are (registration, electronic signatures, passwords and fingerprint scans). And lastly, it does the first two in a fast, simple and inexpensive way.
These messages and files are combined into a secure electronic envelope called an ePackage and are managed and monitored by SenditCertified at all times; all in a very green and environmentally friendly way.
AB: Is it necessary to use SenditCertified for all emails?
SP: SenditCertified and its ePackage are designed for confidential communications where secure transmission and identity verification are important to sender and/or recipient. It can be used for confidential exchanges or anytime the participants want greater security and proof of delivery.
AB: As an information technology advisor, do you have any cautionary tales about insecure email?
SP: We all have either had a bad experience or know someone that has an email horror story. 9M identities were stolen in the US last year and many of these were from using standard email systems. Hitting the send button these days can be risky business, even dangerous, as emails bounce around the internet from server to server (making copies at each stop) in search of targeted recipients. This is called the store-and-forward email architecture, and is a very vulnerable approach (which is avoided in SenditCertified).
AB: What makes an email 100% confidential?
SP: If you’re asking what is confidential, that’s a personal question and likely means anything you don’t want to fall into the wrong hands. If you’re asking how “do you make an email confidential”, as I mentioned in “how does SenditCertified work” (above), it’s the twin pillars of secure, encrypted transmission and indisputable identity verification of the sender and recipient. These two characteristics make an email confidential.
AB: What is the risk with sending sensitive documents overnight via Fed Ex, DHL or UPS?
SP: Most senders of confidential information that use overnight delivery companies are unaware that these services deliver to an adult at an address, not to the named person on the delivery form. So, when you want serious confidentiality, you won’t get it from these services.
AB: Fingerprint authentication technology. Exciting. How will it work?
SP: It’s exciting and simple. You use a scanner to register your actual fingerprint image. This means your fingerprint image is converted into a numeric key and stored in a secure database.
Once registered, it’s an indisputable biometric record of who you are and only you can then later scan and match that stored fingerprint (called “authentication”). It’s the ultimate in personal identity verification; you and your registered fingerprint identity.
AB: What do you enjoy doing when you’re not working?
SP: I’m a techie and I love new gadgets and electronic devices, even in my free time. I’m particularly interested in sensing devices for biometric, nuclear and hydrogen detection, those that can identify certain elements in the air, in liquids or on the body. I’m an investor and advisor in a number of high tech sensing companies. As for when I’m “really” not working, I play golf and swim.
AB: Do you require much sleep?
SP: I sleep about 6 hours a night. I’ve never been an 8 hour guy. I meditate once or twice a day to quiet my mind and reenergize. I think this makes up somewhat for sleeping less than the average 8 hours.
AB: What is one thing that inspires you?
SP: I’m inspired by humans and especially the human mind and its ability to be learn, creative, anticipate, and endure and how the mind has facilitated such amazing things to come into existence through history.
For example, the great pyramids, the Moai statues in Easter Island, Mach Picchu, the Taj Mahal, Angkor Wat, Luxor Temple, Petra, the Potala, and many more. The human mind totally inspires me. BTW, I just returned from an around the world trip that visited each of these amazing locations!
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