Protecting e-mail

As technical experts, it is critical to understand the importance of protecting corporate e-mail within your environments. All types of information are guaranteed to be traveling within the e-mail systems. I have personally seen information from usernames and passwords, social security numbers, confidential business information, legal information, credit card information to name some examples. Working in health care, we have multiple compliances we have to obey. It is critical that we are able to protect PHI and PCI within our environment, e-mail being a high risk to this information leaking.

As an organization, you will most likely have policies in place that enforce what an employee should and shouldn't be doing when it comes to e-mail usage. Although this may be in place, it typically doesn't prevent the users from using the technology to help them get their job done more efficiently. Even though these policies are in place, you and I both know that users will do what...