Why secure your email
Since the Internet is a public network, sending
a standard email is no more secure than sending your message on
a postcard. Yet email is quickly replacing telephones, fax machines
and overnight delivery services as the easiest, most efficient and
least expensive way to communicate.
When you send email, it is routed through a series
of nodes where the information can be copied and stored before being
passed along. Because of the decentralized nature of the Internet,
your message is constantly being redirected and channeled to different
servers throughout the routing process - there is no set path. Each
time your message is stored, it is vulnerable to being intercepted,
read and altered. Since most email servers are backed up regularly,
private correspondence can be retrieved from mail server backup
tapes for weeks, months and even years.
Computer security is becoming a major problem for
corporations. The most recent results of the fifth annual "Computer
Crime and Security Survey" conducted by the Computer Security Institute
with the participation of the FBI found that:
- 70% of the companies and government agencies
polled had experienced computer security breaches within the previous
12 months
- 31% admitted they did not know how many security
breaches they had experienced, particularly with respect to breaches
that originated outside of their company
- 74% acknowledged financial loses due to breaches
- 42% of those willing or able to quantify their
losses lost almost $1 million on average
As Internet and email usage continues to grow, email
security will only increase in importance. ZixMail™
is an easy and inexpensive answer to the problem of email security.
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