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The Bottom Line
- Taceo lets you control access to email messages and attachments you send
- Restricts viewing, printing and exporting of files and even prevents screen captures
- Taceo integrates well with Outlook, allowing you to read secured messages like normal email
- Taceo requires a special Windows viewer to open certified, secure content
- Existing encryption formats are not used, and Taceo integrates only with Outlook
- Files and emails sent with Taceo cannot be tracked
Description
- Taceo protects email content and attachments from unintended access.
- A Taceo plug-in for Outlook lets you easily set access rights for messages.
- Technically, all content is sent as an attachment, which can be opened using a special Viewer.
- You can control access time and prevent viewing, forwarding, copying, printing and screen captures.
- Files can also be protected using a special application and sent as attachments with any email app.
- Each recipient can have their own access rights if the dedicated Taceo application is used.
- You can digitally sign and add secure comments to files protected by Taceo.
- Taceo supports Windows 2000/3/XP and Outlook 2000/2/3.
Guide Review - Taceo 1.8 - Email Security Outlook Add-On
Not necessarily, and not with Taceo. An additional toolbar in Outlook lets you turn on Taceo protection. You can either protect all content or just attachments, set access rights (whether printing and exporting are allowed) and specify a time frame during which access is allowed.
Alternatively, a stand-alone Taceo application offers even more choices when protecting files. You can digitally sign them and assign different access rights to groups and individuals. Thus protected files can be sent by email, but also offered off a server, for example.
The great thing about Taceo is that you never have to worry about the underlying security — even if a recipient does not yet use Taceo, the system is automatically authenticated through a central authority.
The not so good thing about Taceo is that it requires a special viewer (which even fends off screen capture attacks) only available for Windows and does not integrate with any email program other than Outlook.
Taceo is great for controlling access to files, okay for emails if you know the recipient uses Outlook, but a bit problematic if you cannot ensure the recipient has Windows where they need the file.
