By David Glickman

CEO
Presagia

The security and privacy of email has improved over the years. But even today, unless you are emailing someone within your own organization, most emails travel across multiple networks and servers before arriving at their destination. As the data is often sent in unencrypted format, anyone who hacks into one of the networks or servers along the way can read those emails as well as any accompanying attachments. Protect your business and avoid accidentally sharing sensitive information by understanding email security best practices.

Email is fast and easy, but remember it was not originally designed with privacy or security in mind. It was intended to facilitate sending simple messages between people on different networks. For this reason, it is very dangerous to include sensitive information in an email. Your bank, insurer, or government would never email financial or healthcare information in an unencrypted format. Rather, they encrypt it within a PDF or ZIP file and then provide you with a password, usually in a separate email, to unencrypt it on the other end. Although this is preferable to sending information in an unencrypted format, PDFs are not considered a particularly secure method of encrypting information, and many of the ZIP formats can also be hacked.

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