Monday 29 June 2009

Email Security - Sending Secure Legal Documents

I just read about secure email and the
Independent Financial Advertiser market.

Research from Origo, (The IFA equivalent to the SRA) showed that the majority of firms (87%) did not currently have secure email systems, with over half of respondents (58%) highlighting that they were waiting for an industry standard to be put in place.

While this is the case, an alarming majority of respondents (94%)

said they did use email to send personal, sensitive or confidential data.

Now you won't get a lesson on IT Security from me.

I'm just here to question things and maybe offer an answer sometimes.

And my question is this;

"If you send an email and someone intercepts it and then changes it and then it gets delivered, then who's to know?"

I've got an article from a Canadian law firm about this - if you want it email me.

PS Having secure email is a pretty good USP too.
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When your mail is addressed to the bank, investment company, business partners, it can attract attention of IT staff that perform mail server monitoring. And there is nothing that can prevent unscrupulous IT staff with access to the mail server to open and read that message. Other problem is that unauthorized personnel or hackers can have access to the mail server where physical access security and network security are weak.

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