RE: Using Web mail (hotmail, gmail, yahoo, etc) for Business mails
- From: "Robert D. Holtz - Lists" <robert.d.holtz@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 16:32:15 -0500
Sending proprietary or confidential email goes on all of the time every day.
It's up to the company to have some level of trust in what information that
they allow their employees to have access to.
I can send out "secret" stuff to my hearts content and you will never be
able to pick it up by auditing your email server. Password protected
archives can be attached to an email and not set off a single warning. You
will have no way of seeing what I'm up to.
This is just one method.
-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:listbounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Kurt Aubuchon
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2006 3:45 PM
To: sfmailsbm@xxxxxxxxx; security-basics@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Using Web mail (hotmail, gmail, yahoo, etc) for Business mails
Also, if someone does something you'd rather they not
do -- like sending out proprietary/confidential
information or having otherwise inappropriate
communication with an outsider -- you have no way of
seeing what they're up to. You can capture and audit
emails that go through your corporate mail server, but
not ones that go through Yahoo.
--- Murda Mcloud <murdamcloud@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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At some point email leaves 'your control' and goes
out across the wild blue
yonder; this is where encryption comes in.
One of the risks of using webmail is that it
bypasses any gateway filters
you may have so one layer of defense is taken away.
If you do have some kind
of corporate encryption scheme in place and are
sending business email via
gmail then it won't be part of that scheme.
-----Original Message-----
From: listbounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:listbounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of sfmailsbm@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Monday, October 16, 2006 4:00 PM
To: security-basics@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Using Web mail (hotmail, gmail, yahoo, etc)
for Business mails
Dear List,
It is a common practice among users to user their
personal email accounts
like hotmail, gmail, etc to send & receive business
(and most probably
confidential) information
This is particularly the case when users are out of
office
These webmails are not under the company's control,
and hence there is a
risk of information loss. However upto now we have
not heard of any such
cases
Wanted to get the opinion of the list on the
security risks of the use of
Webmails for business mails
Thanks & regards
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