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eMail Security tidbits – Things that will surprise you !

April 21, 2012

 Interesting eMail Security tidbits of information:

  • E-mails, contracts, and PowerPoint files account for 80 percent of corporate information.
  • 71% Use Email to Negotiate Contracts and Agreements
  • 69% Use Email to Exchange Invoices, Statements, and Payment Information
  • 93% Use Email to Communicate with Customers.
  • 38% Use Email to Respond to Regulators
  • 44% Use Email to File with Official Bodies
  • 35% Use Separate Back-End System for Email Retention
  • 23% Use Records Management System for Managing Email
  • 34% Use Document Management System for Managing Email
  • 40% Use Email Management and Archiving Software

There are currently over 10,000 U.S. federal, state, and local laws and regulations addressing what, how, when and why records must be created, stored, accessed, maintained, and retained over increasingly longer periods of time.

The Education sector accounted for the majority of data breaches with 30%, followed by Government (26%) and Healthcare (15%) – almost half of breaches (46%) were due to theft or loss with hacking only accounting for 16%.

Hacking resulted in 73% of identities being exposed

  • 1:400 emails contain confidential information
  • 1:50 network files are wrongly exposed

Breaches on the rise

  • 2010:142 companies exposed 86M individual data records
  • 2010: In 6 months, 40 companies and government agencies have exposed nearly 30M individual data records

IT Professionals need to address mission-critical administration concerns with in-depth, concise coverage. Some sample topics would be:

  • Defending the company’s sensitive information against security problems
  • Neutralizing the threat of computer viruses
  • Identifying potentially disastrous hardware conflicts
  • Unlocking the hidden usefulness of Windows NT utilities
  • Creating seamless Windows NT and Unix interoperability
  • Integrating emerging Internet technologies with your network