Make your organisation's email secure Your business relies on e-mail for
its everyday dealings with partners, suppliers and customers. While
e-mail is an invaluable form of communication, it also represents a
potential threat to your information security. E-mail could become the
means for criminals to install a virus or malicious software on your
computer system and fraudsters will try to use e-mails to obtain
sensitive information through phishing scams. Safeguard email security
If you want to safeguard your company's ability to function, it is
essential to have an effective e-mail security policy in place, and to
ensure your staff understand the risks associated with e-mail. Email
security best practice This pocket guide will help businesses to address
the most important issues. Its comprehensive approach covers both the
technical and the managerial aspects of the subject, offering valuable
insights for IT professionals, managers and executives, as well as for
individual users of e-mail. Overcome email security threats The pocket
guide covers the various types of threat to which e-mail may expose your
organisation, and offers advice on how to counter social engineering by
raising staff awareness. Choose the most secure email client The client
is the computer programme that manages the user's e-mail. Malicious
e-mails often operate through attachment files that infect computer
systems with malware when downloaded. This pocket guide explains how you
can enhance your information security by configuring the e-mail client
to block attachments or to limit their size. Protect your company's
information What kind of information should you include in an e-mail?
How do you know that the e-mail will not be intercepted by a third party
after you have sent it? This guide looks at countermeasures you can take
to ensure that your e-mails only reach the intended recipient, and how
to preserve confidentiality through the use of encryption. Protect your
company's reputation Crude jokes, obscene language or sexist remarks
will have an adverse effect on your organisation's reputation when they
are found in e-mails sent out by your employees from their work account.
This pocket guide offers advice on how to create an acceptable use
policy to ensure that employee use of e-mail in the workplace does not
end up embarrassing your organisation. The pocket guide provides a
concise reference to the main security issues affecting those that
deploy and use e-mail to support their organisations, considering e-mail
in terms of its significance in a business context, and focusing upon
why effective security policy and safeguards are crucial in ensuring the
viability of business operations. About the authors: Professor Steven
Furnell is Professor of Information Systems Security and Head of School
at the University of Plymouth's Centre for Security, Communications and
Network Research. He is the author of Mobile Security: A Pocket Guide
(2009), also published by IT Governance. Dr Paul Dowland is Senior
Lecturer in Information Systems Security at the University of Plymouth's
Centre for Security, Communications and Network Research. He is the
author or editor of over 70 research publications.
