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Insight on Society In Pursuit of E-mail Security

Insight on Society In Pursuit of E-mail Security. Group C. What are some of the current risks and problems with using e-mail?. There are about 250 billion emails generated everyday.

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Insight on Society In Pursuit of E-mail Security

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  1. Insight on SocietyIn Pursuit of E-mail Security Group C

  2. What are some of the current risks and problems with using e-mail? • There are about 250 billion emails generated everyday. • There are many problems and risks related to e-mail security like privacy, improper or illegal use, Virus attacks and many more. • All the problems related to emails are increasing everyday.

  3. What are some of the technology solutions that have been developed? • there are a number of free services that allow users to send self destructing emails: •  1)Big String: recalls and retracts a message after it has been sent based on the number of times the message is read/ the age of the email. •  it also blocks the recipient from copying, forwarding or printing the message

  4. Self destructing email.com-works with the Web based email clients to enable the user to create a one time secure page for the recipient •   Kicknotes.com-self-destruct based on times read and age • Stealth meassage.com- stores encrypted messages(the user can set the self destruct options and messages can't be forwarded

  5. Sdmessage.com(Self Destruct Message)- is wed based and messages self destruct 60 secs after they are viewed • RPost.com-is an add-on to Microsoft Outlook- for a monthly fee of $14.75, RPost alerts the sender that an email is received and opened...it can also verify that the content of the email is not altered • These and many others can be very useful in protecting your email but how is it with the modern corporate law?

  6. Are these solutions compatible with modern law? • They are compatible in certain cases • The ability to eliminate, delete, destroy, or alter e-mails runs flat against the drift of modern corporate law. • E-mails is increasingly playing a role similar to postal mail and contracts in courts. It is even used as evidence of action, intention, and consequence.

  7. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 requires all public firms to develop a reasonable policy of business record retention, including e-mail and instant messages. • A good retention policy cannot be selective, all documents need to be saved • Under the SOX, if you are convicted of changing, altering, or deleting business e-mail that is needed for a judicial process, you can be sentenced for up to 20 years in jail.

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