Email Encryption Solutions
Email communication has replaced many other forms of business communication. As a result, almost inevitably, some personal or confidential information is contained in many of those emails, making email encryption solutions more important now than ever before.
If any of this personal, sensitive information were to be intercepted, your company could be held liable for it being used improperly. Email encryption is another valuable service we offer here at Blue Oak Technology Solutions.
Protect Sensitive Data
You almost can’t be too careful when it comes to protecting other people’s information, including employees' and customers' confidential, personal data. Unfortunately, you are at risk for lawsuits, fines, and even poor business ratings.
Practice Good Security
Encrypting your emails is a good security practice because it is a very cost-effective way of keeping anything you choose private. Encrypting something means basically “for your eyes only” to the recipient, who must have a “key” to unlock and view the encrypted message. It is considered one of the only effective ways of ensuring the privacy you and your business associates need.
Customize Your Protection
Identity theft and other security breaches are not only quite common, but the hackers are getting even better at harvesting the information they need, often much of it via email. Email encryption services from Blue Oak are fully customizable and you get a comprehensive solution for desktop, cloud, and mobile devices in one.
Email Encryption Services Include:
- Meet and maintain compliance standards
- Configurable policy-based lexicons ensures that encryption is automatic
- Detects pre-defined keywords or elements and encrypts if those are present
- Create custom policies, such as to always encrypt when sending to a specific domain
- Remove the worry of an employee forgetting to encrypt private or confidential information
- Enjoy email encryption as a stand-alone solution
- Utilize the hosted solution without any upfront purchase or equipment
Many businesses are required to encrypt all customer or client information, which includes all emails, to meet compliance standards.
But even if your business is not legally required to do so, it’s still a best practice to encrypt sensitive information contained in emails to avoid unintentional disclosure of private or confidential details, which could lead to making you the target of legal action for a remedy.
You can choose a hosted solution with encryption being used automatically for all business emails, ensuring the elimination of the possibility for human error or an email mistakenly being sent without it by you or your employees.
Another option is a simple plugin for Outlook, which you can use only when needed, for only the employees that need email encryption. It’s just a smart business practice to have in place for the security and safety of your business.