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ITACS 5211: Introduction to Ethical Hacking

Wade Mackey

The Biggest Email Security Challenge Facing Organizations Today

September 17, 2018 by Xinteng Chen 2 Comments

In this article, the author introduces about the challenges for email usage. 3.7 billion users use email everyday to send 269 billion messages. The primary challenge is that users lack security awareness. Most users think their emails are safe to use. What they usually do is to delete the spam emails.  In addition, phishing is also a problem for email security. Impersonations are the main method of phishing. Once attackers obtain trust from users, they can start attack activities. In addition, attackers send link to users’ emails, when they click the link, they may lose their passwords or install malware automatically. To prevent emails from being attacked, managing emails is important to companies. Organizations should control emails reception in certain period to block threats. What is more, improving employees’ security awareness should be the primary work for organizations to do.

 

https://www.securitymagazine.com/articles/89415-the-biggest-email-security-challenge-facing-organizations-today

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  1. Ruby(Qianru) Yang says

    September 17, 2018 at 4:39 pm

    Hi Xinteng, thanks for this interetsing article. I totally agree that as cyber criminals continue to launch increasingly advanced attacks, email security must be a top priority for all businesses. Automating detection, remediation and post-delivery incident response allows organizations to protect their people from today’s sophisticated email threats with much more success and efficiency than ever before.

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  2. Yingyan Wang says

    September 18, 2018 at 6:54 pm

    Email security is significant both to individual and organization. The inappropriate use of email brings associated risks impacting information security. Company should pay attention to employee awareness training while implementing other controls to mitigate those risks.

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