Sunday, April 10, 2011

Secure Email Project

I have just completed my secure email project. This project was very interesting. I was never aware of signed and encrypted emails. This was new surfing in new waters for myself. I must admit though, I found this project more direct and understandble than the Access project. This project was smooth. I started early and finished with plenty of time. I am really enjoying learning more and more in the computer world. I have a grasp of terms and phrases I would never of known unless this course. Below is a picture of my Thunderbird inbox. Here are my two email replies from Professor Means. I have highlighted the two with Arrow indicators.




In the article shown above, there is a report on email security. The importance of email security in the expanding computer age has become very prenevolent in the past couple years. The article focuses on how company's can become less vulnerable to data breaches through company emails. Many business are coming into the light of securing employee emails. Internet and data security is important to the survival of a young or old corporation. Leaking of precious information can cause loss of money, profit, and power.
The article states the email market has been steadily growing for the last decade. Between between 2005-2008 over 600 million new mailboxes were established through providers. The biggest loss of email security is through servers. To save email data a company needs a server to store all the data. Mass storage can lead to deleted information that is essential to a business.

Another form of email security loss is from the employees. More and more people are working from home offices or on the road. This requires laptops or portable computers. This means employee have access to offline email messages. So evidently this has a critical risk factor in data security.

The article states "
A large risk to email data within the enterprise is unlawful access to highly sensitive mailbox information". Many offices trust employee's with information. Constantly secure management of these data files is important to its security. Breaking information hackers are less of a problem then mad employees taking there anger out on the company. Data loss from employees selling information, or taking the information to use for themselves.

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