The pocket guide covers the main security issues affecting organizations that use email, considering email in terms of its significance in a business context, and focusing upon why effective security policy and safeguards are crucial in ensuring the company's viability.
Your business relies on email for its everyday dealings with partners, suppliers, and customers. While email is an invaluable form of communication, it also represents a potential threat to your information security. Email could become the means for criminals to install a virus or malicious software on your computer system and fraudsters will try to use emails to obtain sensitive information through phishing scams.
The pocket guide provides a concise reference to the main security issues affecting those that deploy and use email to support their organizations, considering email in terms of its significance in a business context and focusing upon why effective security policy and safeguards are crucial in ensuring the viability of business operations.
Professor Steven Furnell is Professor of Information Systems Security and Head of School at the University of Plymouth’s Centre for Security, Communications and Network Research.
Dr. Paul Dowland is Senior Lecturer in Information Systems Security at the University of Plymouth’s Centre for Security, Communications and Network Research. He is the author or editor of over 70 research publications.