» e-Mail Excellence
E-mail usage is growing globally at a frenetic pace, it has become critical to organizations and the facilitation of transactions, business communications and the flow of information. Yet despite its near universal usage many organizations use this tool at their own risk. Electronic messages and their attachments can be intercepted, blocked, read, tampered with, forged, forwarded, mass distributed and redirected all without the senders’ and often the recipients knowledge let alone permission. Of greater risk most often is the actual content messages. Are regulatory rules being adhered to? Are corporate standards being violated? Is confidential or sensitive corporate information ending up in the wrong email boxes?
Board Members and Senior Executives of organizations frequently do not understand the financial, regulatory and reputation risks they, as corporate officers, and their organizations are being exposed too through their use of misuse of communications tools such as e-mail, instant messaging and collaboration systems.
e-Mail Excellence assesses the management of corporate email procedures:
People Process Information Technology
Protect Comply Operate Audit
Manage Monitor Manitain Measure
Report Mediate
Email is the window to your business
Email too often lacks controls applied to other tools in your business. Email too often lacks the rigorous reviews that your critical systems and networks undergo. Money spent on email is traditionally focused on known threats like viruses and explicit content.
Leaders of an organization need to ensure they understand the value and criticality of their messaging system(s). The content of e-mail, and instant messaging, its usage, and the potential risks that it may be exposing the organization to. The examples are numerous of the effect of one e-mail and the reputational, financial and fiduciary impacts that can arise and the effect it can have on an organization’s top and bottom lines, and shareholder and stakeholder value.
All too often leadership only truly realizes the magnitude of Email once an event or incident has taken place.
Risk Identification
An in depth understanding of the current usage of electronic messaging and any associated operational of security issues from the perspectives of People, Process, Information and technology using the Protect, Comply and Operate portions of our Digital Risk framework
Strategic Alignment
The E-mail Excellence program will allow your organization to develop a plan to take a structured cost effective approach to improving, leveraging and sustaining your e-mail posture and capabilities. This ensures the right levels of security and risk reduction are maintained for the right investments.
Partnership
Our security professionals collaborate with all stakeholders within your company to facilitate understanding, knowledge transfer and alignment. We are with you every step of the way.