In Which We Examine The Best Practices Of Email Security
Best practices is a phrase that makes everyone feel warm and fuzzy inside. Of course we all want to follow the 'best practices' because the alternative would be absurd!
Email best practices should make you feel warm. And fuzzy. You know why? Because they work!
By implementing best practices for email security, you're following along a well-worn path to complete security. It's never too late to focus on and improve your organization's email security. If you haven't updated your policies in several years, now is the perfect time to consider doing it. Regulations are making email security more than optional these days in many industries. If your organization is in a regulated industry, then implementing email security is long overdue.
Following a number of recommended techniques, you too can vastly step up your email security game. With high stakes on the line, now is the time to learn all you can about what practices are considered the best.
Best practices for email security looks essentially like this:
- Remove physical access to your mail servers.
- Move mail server operations to the cloud.
- Set tightly defined access rules to determine who can modify or delete email.
- Align policies with your stated security and privacy policies.
- Encrypt your email! Securing your email using 256-bit encryption is a great way to rapidly increase its overall security.
- Appoint a data security officer.
- Review your current policies.
- Use strong passphrases for all passwords.
- Make email security a part of corporate culture.
- Incentivize good email security practices among employees. Reward those who embrace it and punish those who don't.
- Rely on technology whenever possible. Counting on people to always employ email best practices is not a good idea.
Email security begins and ends with commitment.
