Security in Computing 5th Edition by Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Charles P Pfleeger, Jonathan Margulies

Exercise 9

An electronic mail system could be used to leak information. First, explain how the leakage could occur. Then, identify controls that could be applied to detect or prevent the leakage.

Step 1 of 3

Solution:

E-mail leakage:

• An electronic mail system leaks the information at some point of time.

• The possible threat of email leakage has risen as privacy concerns in the mail system.

• It is a critical issue that how to prevent the email information leaks, when a message is accidentally addressed to non-desired recipients.

• Even though it is not easy to estimate the amount of loss caused by the information leaks, it is needed to avoid such concerns.

• The leakage of the email information system can exist from the email systems either accidently or deliberately by the users and employees who forwards and sends the e-mails outside of the organization.

• It is also happening with the Spam mails and it is possibly tempted to get what is offered.