Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Secure Email Project


In our project Secure Email, we were asked to send a digitally signed and encrypted email. Once both emails were replied by Professor Means, we were ready to start our blog.

Please see below the screen capture of my Thunderbird inbox with both replies.



The main purpose of this project was to learn how to protect our emails that could contain sensitive data from other people other than the recipient. This is very important especially for business that share private information through emails.

In summary, the article discusses how Wells Fargo started using an easy way to have secured emails and its benefits. The vice president, Bipin Sahni, was concerned about his clients, and the security of the information that is sent online. The VP of the company emphasizes that users are not all tech savvy, thus Wells Fargo looked for encryption products, and found one very helpful.

Now having emails protected, Wells Fargo’s customers and employees send about 60,000 emails monthly.  Besides, Wells Fargo saves a lot of money in sending documents containing confidential information via priority mail to customers, and not only that, but also time.  Unquestionably, secure email plays an important role in many companies, and Wells Fargo is an example of this.

To read full article, please go to:
http://searchfinancialsecurity.techtarget.com/news/1349375/Wells-Fargo-deploys-Voltage-for-secure-email

No comments:

Post a Comment