Simple Web Security

I came across this interesting discussion on whether or not companies should allow their employees to forward email to GMail.  Most of the concern is with security, as businesses share a lot of confidetial information through e-mail: Design docs, intellectual property, client information, even passwords into various servers.  Some say that even if the IT administrators disallow it, some employeees will figure out a way around it – they always do.

However, the answer to this question would be a lot easier if the company was already using end-to-end encryption for their e-mail, because the messages would still be encrypted on Google’s servers.

Tags: confidential, end-to-end encryption, gmail, protocol

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