Bright Com, Inc. is pleased to announce the establishment of the following HIPAA compliant data products and services:

Healthcare Certificate Authority: Offering 128-bit S/MIME public and private key encryption certificates for covered entities.

Secure E-Mail: Through the Bright Com, Inc. Health Care Certificate Authority, covered entities have the ability to send and receive encrypted E-Mail messages.

Outbound Secure Fax Transmissions: Using Bright Com’s Passport software, covered entities can send encrypted fax messages.

Inbound Secure Fax to E-Mail: Fax messages being sent to covered entities are converted to E-Mail attachments, decrypted and sent to the recipient’s inbox.

Features & Methodology

Bright Com, Inc. PASSPORT® Fax and E-Mail Server provides communications across single or multiple enterprise platforms. Interfacing to a host of communications media such as secure email, Fax, Telex, Inmarsat, pagers and SMS message services. It provides total peace of mind in a secure business critical communications environment

Bright Com, Inc. SecurePort secure email and fax server provides a full Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) enabling your applications to generate encrypted or digitally signed email and fax documents. Bright Com, Inc. SecurePort provides automatic proof that the correspondent has read the message.

Bright Com, Inc. SecurePort is specifically designed for industries where security, compliance and audit in document transmission are paramount. It provides a secure email interface for any application or back-office system to communicate with your clients and counter parties.

Document Exchange workflow server is an open and scalable enterprise level workflow solution, which defines, models and automates your business and communication processes. Benefits include improved worker productivity and document management.

Employed by the world’s largest banks, corporations and shipping companies, (AND HOSPITALS) PASSPORT is deployed in hot standby and disaster configurations to suit the most demanding requirements for reliability and performance.

Certificate Authority	Bright Com, Inc. SecurePort interfaces directly with the Certificate Authority included in Windows 2000 server. This allows Bright Com, Inc. to generate unlimited Trust Certificates and Private Keys which will be stored in our secure certificate bureau, allowing you and your business associates unfettered exchange of encrypted Email and fax messages.
Trust Certificates	Bright Com, Inc. SecurePort generates Trust Certificates packaged for secure transmission to intended recipients. Each time a new certificate is requested an intuitive Certificate and Private Key installation wizard is automatically generated to ensure that your clients may easily install it within their local store.
Bright Com, Inc. SecurePort Internet Gateway	Bright Com, Inc. SecurePort incorporates its own full SMTP server which transmits and receives multiple Emails and faxes simultaneously.Bright Com, Inc. SecurePort’s SMTP server may be configured to sign or encrypt all messages and may also be programmed to reject messages to and from clients which do not have trust certificates registered. Important messages may be monitored for client “Read notification”. In this instance SecurePort will imbed a code within the transmitted Email which causes a “Read Request Notification” to be passed back to the SecurePort information server when the Email is opened. SecurePort will continuously monitor the information server for the “Read Notification” and provide alerts to the administrator should the client not read the message within a given period.
Read Notifications	It is essential in the finance, health and other security critical industries to not only know if someone has received an important fax or email but also to know if it has been read.We have integrated an option into SecurePort that will embed a “read notification” into the email itself. When the email is opened it will automatically respond by sending a “Read Notification” back to the originators Information Server so that an audit trail may be completed from origination to completion. In addition, alerts may be generated to the system administrator to warn if messages have not been read within a predetermined period.