Who’s Reading Your Emails?

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: Email Encryption For Both Beginners & Professionals