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Who’s Reading Your Emails?
Today we all use either texting or emails far more than we use letter
writing to communicate with our friends and relatives. In business the
use of email is ubiquitous, and seems to grow exponentially each year.
Sooner or later someone in your company will raise the question
regarding the amount of confidential or business sensitive information
collectively the organization is sending and possibly receiving by
email. Is this information secure and should we just casually be sending
it via this medium? Before email we either sent our correspondence by
post in an envelope or byway of fax. Both relatively secure. In the case
of postal services the interception of letters etc. was and is quite
rare any easy to spot. Whilst in the case of fax almost impossible to
achieve.
Email on the other hand is much more easily subverted and not so easy
to detect if and when it has been. This is when the idea to encrypt
your company email will be discussed and considered. You can think of
encrypting email as akin to putting your letter in a registered
envelope, it can’t be read as it travels to the recipient and only the
bona fide recipient will actually receive it. Sounds like a great idea a
virtual no brainer! But how do we implement such a system?
Simplicity with Security is the Answer
The first major obstacle to using encryption is how will the intended
recipient be able to decrypt the encrypted email? An issue that is by
no means a trivial concern and one that can lead to the whole system
falling into disuse because it is not easy to administer and for the
user not easy to use. Any system that is put in place to increase
security, if it relies on the user changing their normal business
practices, is doomed to fail. What is needed is a simple but secure
solution that everyone can use. See the full post here entitled: http://blog.computerservicenow.com/posts/2013/06/24/email-encryption-for-both-beginners-professionals/" rel="nofollow - Email Encryption For Both Beginners & Professionals
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