As much as big tech might long to replace it, email is still hard to beat. The technology has been around for almost four decades now, and it remains our most critical tool for doing business. But can business leaders really be confident their email system isn’t the weak link in their digital security? Here’s why email might not be as secure as you think – and how a modern secure communications platform such as Zivver can help your business stay safe.
Badly designed or no authentication
Everyone knows not to use the word “password” as their password, but sometimes that’s the least of a company’s worries because IT policies aimed at increasing security might actually be undermining it. Staff using many different systems at work are invariably told to use a different password for each of them, including their email. They are then instructed to change their passwords regularly and to use complicated combinations of numbers and characters (which can be hard to remember). Such precautions might sound like a good idea but in reality they are a recipe for disaster as they make it more likely that someone somewhere will end up with their email password on a Post-it note stuck to their monitor.
