Email Encryption-Time Calls For It
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Jan-11-2012
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Consider the scenario where you are mailing a check to pay a utility bill or sending a letter to a friend or a member of your family telling the recipient that the extra key to your house is hidden underneath the box of tools set right behind the big plant in your garden. To communicate such sensitive information, you might want to use a security envelope with hatched lines to conceal the actual content of the envelope.
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Do you know that most email messages you send pass through many secured and unsecured networks? Sometimes they get monitored, sniffed over or can be copied on different servers they travel through, all over the internet. Your email messages may contain your extremely private data or your personal information which any one can read if he has access to any of the servers those email messages pass through.
This kind of access can be gained by anyone from the government snoopers, companies themselves, hackers, phishing and other online scam players.
With a threat like that, you might want to secure your email messages by encrypting them to block their view from prying eyes.
Consider the scenario where you are mailing a check to pay a utility bill or sending a letter to a friend or a member of your family telling the recipient that the extra key to your house is hidden underneath the box of tools set right behind the big plant in your garden. To communicate such sensitive information, you might want to use a security envelope with hatched lines to conceal the actual content of the envelope.
If such level of precaution should you take while mailing a letter, wouldn't you want to practice the same preventive measure while you send personal or confidential information through email? Sending personal or private and sensitive information in an unencrypted email is like writing them on a postcard and offering people to see it.
The best way to make sure that your information can not be sniffed over by any nosy intruder; it is recommended to save your text information in a document file and encrypted it before attaching it in the email. Before reaching its intended destination, even if someone manages to sniff into the email, the encrypted attachment in it will remain safe no matter how hard the prying individual tries to decrypt it. This way, even the most dedicated hacker can be prevented from intercepting and sneaking into your private communications.
Now, the question is which program is reliable enough to offer such an unbreakable security? Our suggestion for you is to go for a product that uses 256-bit AES encryption algorithm, the strongest encryption standard adopted by US Government.
One of the most reliable encryption products available in the market, Folder Lock has proven to be the most trusted file encryption software robust enough to curb all efforts of data theft and information sniffing.
Folder Lock's feature to encrypt e-mail is easy to use and offers strong protection against prying eyes. You can send your encrypted files and folders through emails, CDs/DVDs and other portable devices like USB drive, thumb drive and memory cards securely and safely. You can easily encrypt your data and sensitive information and send it via email to your friends, colleagues and relatives the way you normally do.
The intended recipient of the email can access your encrypted locker and the sensitive information saved inside the locker by providing the correct password. For better security, it is recommended that you don't send the password of your encrypted locker in the same email; give it via phone or by another mean, instead. In this way, you can easily and safely send your private information over the internet to your business partner without any fear of data being lost, leaked or compromised.
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Article Source :
http://www.articleseen.com/Article_Email Encryption-Time Calls For It_132089.aspx
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Author Resource :
Jimmyslee is a senior marketing content developer at folderlockInc. that deals with the development of data security applications.
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Folder Lock, Security Protection,
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