Methods and systems for increasing the security of electronic messages

摘要

A method for generating e-mail messages with increased security includes receiving an e-mail message at a control system. The e-mail message has recipients, a security level, control attributes, and e-mail message contents. Moreover, the method includes verifying the recipients at the control system, and storing the recipients, security level, control attributes, and e-mail message contents in the control system when each of the recipients is verified. Furthermore, the method includes generating modified e-mail messages from the e-mail message, transmitting each of the modified e-mail messages to a respective recipient, and capturing authentication data from one of the recipients when the one recipient indicates a desire to view the e-mail message contents with a communications device operated by the one recipient. When the one recipient is successfully authenticated, the method includes permitting the one recipient to view the e-mail message contents in accordance with the control attributes.

主权项

1. A method for generating e-mail messages with increased security comprising:
receiving an e-mail message at a control system, the e-mail message having recipients, a security level, control attributes, and e-mail message contents; verifying the recipients using the control system; storing the recipients, security level, control attributes, and e-mail message contents in the control system when each recipient is verified; generating modified e-mail messages from the e-mail message and transmitting a different one of the modified e-mail messages to each recipient; receiving a transmitted modified e-mail message at a computing device operated by one of the recipients; clicking on a function included in the received modified e-mail message to cause the recipient computing device to communicate with the control system; extracting a transaction identifier from the function and obtaining a recipient identifier from the received modified e-mail message; comparing the extracted transaction identifier against transaction identifiers included in a transaction registry; mapping the extracted transaction identifier to an e-mail identifier and a recipient identifier included in the transaction registry; determining that the e-mail message contents are stored in the control system and can be transmitted to the recipient computing device, when the extracted transaction identifier matches a transaction identifier in the transaction registry; capturing authentication data from the one recipient and authenticating the one recipient using an authentication system; and permitting the one recipient to view the e-mail message contents in accordance with the control attributes when the one recipient is successfully authenticated.