Email Encryption: Of Course You Need It!

Have you ever suspected that a hacker could silently observe your email interactions with your clients and your staff? If you manage your own email infrastructure, we want to highlight the importance of email encryption. Encryption keeps your business’ email communications secure and compliant so you can worry less about security and privacy to focus more on running your business.

Here are three potential consequences of failing to encrypt your email communications.

Regulatory Fines

The big one to consider is that you’ll be charged out the wazoo in regulatory and compliance fines for failing to protect sensitive information.

Think about it; how much sensitive information is exchanged by email at your business? Even if it’s not directly included in the body of the email, how many attachments are sent that contain personal or sensitive information? Without encryption, any onlooker could easily pluck this data out of your inbox and use it for nefarious purposes.

And whenever you breach the security and privacy of others, you’re sure to get slapped with serious fines that can break your budget and jeopardize your business for the foreseeable future.

Negative Public Relations

What would your customers and clients think if they found out you don’t encrypt your email?

Never underestimate the power of a bad review or a local op-ed in the paper about how you don’t take security seriously. If potential clients are informed of a reason not to work with you—especially one related to security and privacy—they will consider other options, period. Worse yet, your current customers could jump ship and go work with one of your competitors, which directly impacts your bottom line and profits.

Seriously, who wants to work with a business that doesn’t take security seriously? Not me; that’s for sure.

Loss of Intellectual Property

What would you do if your biggest competitors had access to the tech and strategies that make your business what it is?

If your business has industry secrets or intellectual property to maintain, you really do need email encryption to ensure communications pertaining to those secrets are not leaked to competitors. Otherwise, you run the risk of ideas, thoughts, patents, and other IP falling into the hands of people who will steal your clientele. Worse yet, you might end up fighting prolonged legal battles and paying exorbitant fines due to these legal battles over your IP, which nobody wants.

Protect what’s yours with email encryption before it inevitably is no longer yours.

Virtual Business Solutions can work with your business to encrypt your email communications and keep your company’s messages safe. Learn more by calling us today at (504) 840-9800 ext. 105.