When we sit down to put pen to paper and actually write a letter, once we are ready to send it we place the letter inside of an envelope and seal it in order to keep the letter and its contents safe. It is a small layer of privacy protection, but it works – especially if the contents of the letter are in regards to private and sensitive information. For highly classified documents, even more measures than simply placing the letter in an envelope can be involved, such as the use of coded text, invisible ink, or even making sure that it is hand delivered through channels you know to be secure or by a special courier.
However, when we send an email to one another, we just send it out without typically thinking of any privacy issues. They do exist however. IT support Cheshire makes encrypting email to protect sensitive contents relatively easy using special software. Usually the software required to encrypt and decrypt encrypted email requires the use of a public key and a private key. The public key is publically available to everyone, and if you were going to send someone an encrypted email, you would simply encrypt the contents using that individual’s public encryption key. Once that person has received your email, he or she would then use the private encryption key that only they would have access to, to decode and read the message. It is so easy to do once it is set up, IT support Cheshire won’t have anything to worry about.
Most email software your IT support Cheshire department will use supports email encryption, including Microsoft Outlook. Outlook will also flag your email before you send it if the recipient’s email software doesn’t support encryption. Some email software packages IT support Cheshire may have access to specialise in encrypted emails and allow you to attach a digital signature to your emails, so it can be verified that it is actually you who sending the email and not someone spoofing your address. This is a feature IT support Cheshire loves since it eliminates the ability of hackers to impersonate others’ identities.
