11/27/2017

Email Remains an IT Security Nightmare

Sometimes confidential information gets leaked by mistake

We’ve probably all done it: sent an email to the wrong person. It might have been by mistake due to not checking before hitting send or done it on purpose. Data privacy and risk management company Egress Software Technologies asked a bunch of people about email. The results, data from which were shared with ET, are interesting.

“Most of us can relate to the sudden panicked realization of sending someone the wrong email," said Tony Pepper, Egress' CEO and co-founder. "While these email fails can be perfectly innocuous, they can also cause serious problems to the sender and their company if they contain sensitive details or attachments. At the end of the day, we’re only human and we’re going to make mistakes, but we have to have some way of mitigating this if it’s going to cause a data breach.”

“While offending an accidental recipient may cause red faces, leaking confidential information can amount to a data breach," Pepper added. "As we move towards the EU General Data Protection Regulation, it has never been more important to get a grip on any possible risk points within the organisation and, as this research shows, email needs serious attention.”

Please click here to read the complete article from Enterprise Times.