Tips To Secure Your Emails

Here are five simple tips that can save you from serious email attacks.

Considering the number of hacking events happened in recent time. Online data security has become really important aspect these days. Latest Sony hack exposed emails of company’s employees. Hackers can spoof into company’s emails by sending fake email with malicious link to exploit sensitive user data. Today we have listed five simple tips that can help you in securing your emails to avoid such online spoofs.



1. Archive

You should 'Archive' your read email in equal interval of time. Most IT companies have auto archive policy. This takes the email off the server however, you can still access the email on your local machine. But they cannot be accessed from website or any other online media. Archiving email is the best option to secure your server database. You can even create filter to archive specific type of emails automatically.

2. Organised Mailbox

You must organise your email inbox on equal intervals of time. You can create folders to sort your emails. This can help you in segmenting data so that attacker wouldn't understand which folder to go to. You can take multiple steps to search your wanted information. Organizing email inbox is the most convenient way to secure emails.

3. Work and Personal emails

You shout never use work email for person mail and vice versa. This limits the access to attacker. In case you are using the same email for both and work emails then it lets attacker to know your shopping habits, possibly even credit card and bank account information. Attackers often send out phishing message that allow hackers to gain access of your mailbox.

4. Unknown Attachments

If you ever receive an email with link or attachment that you were not expecting. Do not click it. These are phishing emails, it exploits your system with malicious script. Sometimes hackers access some of your friends email address to send you malicious attachment. If you are not expecting any email with an attachment from your contact. Send a separate email the sender asking whether the first email was legitimate.

5. Raise Alarm

In case of your work email, if your email inbox is acting strange. If it automatically sends replies, it is highly probable that your email has been compromised. You should directly contact your IT department and alert them about the incident.
Here are five simple tips that can save you from serious email attacks.