Volume : 3, Issue : 3, March - 2014

A Preventive Measure to Secure Your Email on Cloud

Ms. Komal Saxena, Mr. Anjan Saxena

Abstract :

 Email is the basic communication tool being used today. Be it in home or in an organisation. It is more prevalent in the workplace. The reasons for its evolvement as a communication tool are its sheer speed and cost effectiveness. With internet access and so heavy email usage in modern business practices, the security implications are bigger than ever. With this comes the ease of giving attention to data protection and storage laws. It is the responsibility of an organisation to provide security to the sensitive data in email from various customers, suppliers and staff. It is important to ensure that inbound, outbound and stored email is kept safe and secure. [1] Email security threat does not discriminate between the type of organisation.[2] Organisation need to make sure that they are armed with the best security solutions available. The Widespread use of email has provided hackers and crackers with an easy way to distribute the harmful contents to the internal network.[3] There various email threats that can hamper a network like information leakage, malware attack, phishing etc. There are various different approaches that can be taken to ensure email security. These approaches include placement of security on-site within the confines of the business network or move the security off-site completely. In this paper, we are going to talk about how email security can be improved by incorporating cloud based solutions.