Tech Center: Secure E-Mail Services
You’ve Got (Secure) Mail: Using Service Providers to Boost Protection
While the SaaS market is, in many ways, still in its infancy, hosted e-mail security firms are leading the way thanks to ease of implementation and many obvious benefits. Still, these services are not without risks. In this Dark Reading Tech Center report, we’ll discuss how to determine what mix of in-house and hosted mail makes sense for your organization.
Table of Contents
2 About the Author
3 Secure E-Mail: Make It Someone Else’s Problem
3 Figure 1: Greatest Risk For Data Loss
4 GIGO: Garbage In, Good (Stuff) Out
5 Bag O’ Toys
6 Figure 2: Security Breaches Over Past Year
8 Secret Sauce
8 Figure 3: Monitored Employee Activity
9 Figure 4: DLP Product Capabilities
10 How Not to Do It
10 Don’t Forget Your Keys
10 Shopping Spree
11 Figure 5: Current and Planned Encryption Use
12 The Reliability Factor
12 Soft Skills
About the Author
Jordan Wiens is an InformationWeek Analytics contributor. He has covered variety of information security topics for InformationWeek, Network Computing and other publications for five years. Jordan was the security beat editor for Network Computing in 2007. He has presented and taught at a number of conferences, universities and government agencies on network, application and Web security.
Jordan has worked in the security field for almost a decade as both a security researcher and a senior network security engineer. His employers have included one of the five largest public universities and one of the five largest government contractors.
Jordan holds a B.S. in mathematics and has maintained a CISSP certification for five years, though he’s more proud of the capture-the-flag hacking competitions he’s won at Defcon and RSA.
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