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Major upgrade for Safe425/01/2024 - 4:34 pm- MI5 warns of massive intellectual property theft19/10/2023 - 12:17 pm
- Updated look and feel for Safe4 – new upload options02/08/2023 - 10:02 am
- Risk of using email for the transfer of confidential information21/07/2023 - 1:22 pm
- Enhanced User Experience for Safe405/07/2023 - 11:53 am
Safe4 version 4.3 is released
/in Blog, News - AllIn recent months the development team at Safe4 have been actively engaged with enhancements to the service that will improve the user’s experience, and help us to meet the many requirements for new capabilities that are constantly arising. The release of version 4.3 marks an important step towards a number of significant developments that will […]
Re-emphasising the value of audit trails
/in Blog, News - All, SecurityProving that information has been accessed after it has been delivered can be a challenge. That is the main purpose of the detailed File History within Safe4, and it is proving to be of increasing value to customers and their clients. Whether the activity in question is a complex corporate merger or acquisition, a personal […]
“Secure” email services suffer outages – Safe4 records another month of 100% availability
/in Blog, News - All, SecuritySafe4 has for over 5 years offered a document delivery and storage service that is highly secure, flexible, and exceptional value for money. Still, however, a number of organisations believe that “secure” email is a viable alternative for getting confidential documents safely to clients and other external parties. Recent events suggest that some providers of […]
EU nullifies Safe Harbour agreement with US: where is your data stored?
/in Blog, News - All, SecurityBack in 2010, when we launched the company, we decided that all of the information held within Safe4 would be stored in UK-only data centres accredited to the ISO 27001 security standard. That decision has been vindicated on many occasions since, and has been given further weight by a recent ruling at the European Court […]
Google Docs crashes – Safe4 has another month of 100% availability
/in Blog, News - AllThe last month has seen outages from Dropbox and Amazon Web Services, and this morning there is a report of what seems like a distatrous failure of Google Docs. Take a look at this. During September, Safe4 achieved another month of 100% availability, together with a further surge in user numbers. Response times were again […]
Safe4 to present at Society of Will Writers conference
/in Blog, News - AllSafe4 will be opening the Society of Will Writers annual conference in Redditch on Monday 5 October, with a presentation focussing on the Digital Legacy, and how it can be captured and preserved for future generations. The conference will also mark the official launch of the Safe4 Digital Inheritance Vault, designed to enable will writers […]
Our “Digital Afterlife” … what will we leave behind?
/in Blog, News - AllSome recent blog posts on the Safe4 website have highlighted the importance of the Digital Legacy – to a great extent this has concentrated on the quantitative aspects of the estate that we will all leave behind. One of the key duties of an executor is to ensure that the value of all assets is […]
What is the Digital Legacy, and how can it be captured?
/in Blog, News - AllAlmost all of us now use electronic systems to help to manage different aspects of our lives. Many of these are online, and use services based in what is known as “The Cloud”. Safe4 is a classic example of this, and uses the Cloud to good effect to make sharing and managing documents online possible […]
Safe4 Digital Inheritance Vault to launch at Conference
/in Blog, News - AllIn conjunction with the Society of Will Writers, Safe4 have created a Digital Inheritance Vault to be launched at the Society’s annual conference on 5 and 6 October 2015 in Redditch, Worcestershire. The Vault will be available to members of the Society, who provide an extensive range of inheritance planning services to their clients: wills, […]
Dropbox suffers recent outage – but Safe4 scores another month of 100% availability
/in Blog, News - All, SecurityDropbox users may have experienced some difficulty and inconvenience following their recent outage. However, Safe4 achieved another month of 100% availability in August. With the exception of very brief periods of pre-planned server maintenance, Safe4 has provided customers with continuous service for nearly 5 years. Using UK-based data centres that are accredited to the ISO […]