Why should you protect your email communications?
 

Why Use Encryption to Protect your eMail Attachments?

Recently enacted laws by the U S Congress (HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley and Sarbanes-Oxley) require many businesses to establish controls and safeguards over the privacy of certain sensitive information. Encryptomatic applications may be an important and cost effective method to help organizations comply with these laws by securing E-Mail attachments for transmission over the Internet.

There are many points where an email may be intercepted as it leaves your PC and travels to the intended recipient. Every email message will be stored on at least two servers on its way -- your ISP mail server and on the intended recipient's ISP mail server. If it travels through MX hosts the message will be stored on each of those servers as well, where it may be stored, backed up, or read.

The path an email takes to get to its destination can be complex, and you have little or no control over it.  Hopefully the ISPs and server administrators are respectful of your privacy (most are honest people), but what if your email is caught by someone who is dishonest?

Traffic monitors are applications capable of scanning the flow of email and fishing out email that contains certain words that may be interesting to the eavesdropper. Any word in your email, such as 'password' or 'bank account' or even a particular domain name, may trigger attention.  With nothing other than the personal honesty of IT staff protecting your email and attachment, it is clear that your communications is very, very vulnerable to interception.  Read more about email security.

"But I have nothing to hide." 

That's great! Most of us do not. But you probably lock the doors to your house and car, too, even though you have nothing to hide. Even though the information you send in an email may not seem important to you, it may be interesting to someone else for reasons you don't understand.

At Encryptomatic LLC, we believe people with "something to hide" began encrypting their communications years ago -- they were motivated by their activities to implement the hard-to-use solutions that have been available for years.  Today,  people with nothing to hide are the most exposed on the internet.  Additionally, certain U.S. laws now require certain types of businesses to take safeguards to protect sensitive data.

Encryption technology has been available for years. So why aren't you using it yet?  Probably because it is hard to implement and maintain, very expensive, and often requires that you change your behavior. Or perhaps you are only now beginning to realize the importance of safeguarding your email. Our applications are designed to make securing your email and file attachments as simple as possible.

Does email interception really happen? 

Yes it does! Read for yourself.

 

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