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E-Mail Security Steven Furnell

E-Mail Security By Steven Furnell

E-Mail Security by Steven Furnell


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This pocket guide will help businesses to address the most important issues. Its comprehensive approach covers both the technical and the managerial aspects of the subject, offering valuable insights for IT professionals, managers and executives, as well as for individual users of email.

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E-Mail Security: A Pocket Guide by Steven Furnell

Don't let an email cause an information security incident at your company - buy this pocket guide today! 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. If you want to safeguard your company's ability to function, it is essential to have an effective email security policy in place, and to ensure your staff understand the risks associated with email. This pocket guide will help businesses to address the most important issues. Its comprehensive approach covers both the technical and the managerial aspects of the subject, offering valuable insights for IT professionals, managers and executives, as well as for individual users of email. Read this pocket guide to - *Defend your business from attack *Use email clients to improve security *Preserve confidentiality *Protect your company's reputation The pocket guide provides a concise reference to the main security issues affecting those that deploy and use email to support their organisations, 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.

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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. He is the author of Mobile Security: A Pocket Guide (2009), also published by IT Governance. 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.

About Steven Furnell

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. He is the author of Mobile Security: A Pocket Guide (2009), also published by IT Governance. 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.

Table of Contents

Glossary of Abbreviations Chapter 1: Email: Can we live without it? Dependency without a guarantee The implications of dependence Takeaways Chapter 2: Email threats and attacks Mass-mailed malware Spams and scams There's something Phishy going on Takeaways Chapter 3: Securing the client General guidelines Web based clients Takeaways Chapter 4: Safety in transit Protocols Countermeasures Takeaways Chapter 5: Server side security Firewall Authenticated access Connection filtering Address filtering Content filtering Challenge/response Email gateway Relaying UBE by attachment Takeaways Chapter 6: Email archiving Archiving because we want to Archiving because we have to Takeaways Chapter 7: Ethereal email Takeaways Chapter 8: Risking our reputation? Going down in history Just having a laugh? Putting it in a policy Takeaways Appendix: additional notes Domain Name System (DNS) Architectures ITG Resources

Additional information

NLS9781849280969
9781849280969
1849280967
E-Mail Security: A Pocket Guide by Steven Furnell
New
Paperback
IT Governance Publishing
2010-11-30
118
N/A
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