The Fast and the Furious, Emailing: Perception vs. Reality

The Fast and the Furious, Emailing: Percâption vs. Reblity How many times have you been issued a speeding ticket in the past year? Now think about how many times you've driven over the speed limit in the same time period. Likewise, one in every five employees know of someone within their organization who has been caught and reprimanded for sending out sensitive information via email without adhering to corporate protocol. But how many more have done so without getting caught? of employees claim they demonstrate either equally secure or more secure email behaviors than their colleagues. of drivers perceive themselves as 99% 98% good, safe drivers. M Send But the reality is that: 76% eat or drink behind the wheel 56% have sent an email to the wrong person have received unencrypted emails containing sensitive info 55% speed 53% have sent sensitive corporate info without encryption 53% talk on a handheld phone 21% will pick up their phone and search contacts while driving know of someone at their company who has been caught sending out sensitive information against protocol 25% 20% Five Steps to Preventing Sensitive Information Leakage Filter toxins out of your outbound email. Toxins include first/last names combined with social security numbers, protected health information, financial account numbers, credit card numbers and other government identifiers. Outbound content filtering or email data loss prevention (DLP) solutions can help filter, quarantine or block these toxic data elements. Measure violations and set targets for improvement. Because if you can't measure it, you can't improve it. Let employees be your eyes and ears. Employees know best when it comes to what is legitimate and what is not legitimate. Let them help you, help them. When in doubt, encrypt and notify. 4 It's usually simpler to encrypt an outbound message that may go against policy and notify the sender than it would be to involve the message in quarantine activity. Communicate your policy. Employees who fully understand the policy goals will buy in more readily. To find out what else your employees aren't telling you about their email security habits, download our survey report: http://bit.ly/13N6CAL Sources: SilverSky Email Security Habits Survey, July 2013 http://content.usatoday.com/communities/driveon/post/2012/08/study-drivers-admit-to-dangerous-habits/1#.UERCDXZNG1- - SilverSky www.SilverSky.com SECURITY FROM THE CLOUD -