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This is the first in our new "How To" educational series. In many, many cases there are things the client can do to cut their costs and save money. Here are some basic tips on how to use your consultants or internal IT department to train your staff and save costs!
HAVE YOUR CONSULTANTS TRAIN YOUR STAFF!
Along with employing some of the more technologically savvy ways to protect yourself when sending and receiving emails, simply practicing better email behavior can go a long way. By being more conscious of your personal email conduct, you can decrease your vulnerability to email scams and malicious attacks. Practicing security-minded emailing also protects your coworkers and employees, in addition to the people in your address book which can make you a better Internet citizen. In this article, we'll cover some basic steps which you can take to become a security-minded emailer.
Regardless of whether you use an email application such as Outlook or Mail, or if you simply point your browser to Gmail or Yahoo to check your email, you should always make sure that you are using a secure connection. A secure connection between your computer and your mail server is one in which your computer is able to recognize that the mail server it is communicating with is indeed the intended server. This connection is verified by use of certificates which a website obtains from a certificate authority as a means of being able to certify to your computer that they are who they say they are.
All computers, from your desktop in the den to the laptop you use on the road, have become more and more vulnerable to intrusion and attack. From January 2005 to the present an estimated 165 million data records of US residents have been exposed according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. Viruses, worms, malware and spyware are rampant throughout the Internet. Entities as diverse as the federal government and the City of New York pension system to companies like SAIC, AT&T and numerous banks have had laptops with supposedly secure information either lost or stolen.