Part one – how to protect yourself.
Recently I have had the unenviable task of trying to reach a compromise between security and marketing in relation to emails.
It has not been an easy one as is often the case with these kinds of situations. The more secure something is, the less attractive or friendly it becomes which is not something brand/ marketing like to hear. Add to this the fact that often what brand and marketing think is great isn’t always the most accessible let alone secure, particularly when it comes to emails.
However with the increase in attacks coming via email, the need to be secure in our electronic communications is ever increasing. As these attacks increase, the need for companies to not only be secure in everything they do but to try and educate the consumer in how to be secure in the electronic age also increases.
I have often told friends and colleagues that the best way to be secure online is not necessarily by building a fortress around yourself of both hardware based and software based firewalls as well as routers and anti virus/ spyware/ malware or rootkit/ adware hunters etc, but through changing the way they behave online.
